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"I would strongly suggest to lawyers looking into this case that, come the time, they get a few people from the El Comercio newspaper on record about the happenings of November 26th. Those lawyers should also get Messrs. Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor and Oliver Donaldson of Canaccord Genuity Limited in London, the NOMAD (Nominated Adviser and Broker) for Minera IRL Ltd, on record as it would seem they have committed a grave infraction and dereliction of duty regarding key company news releases."
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Something that Canaccord Genuity and Minera IRL (MIRL.L) (IRL.to) people will be interested to read, I'm sure:
Jaime Pinto's been a naughty boy. Again.
Full text tomorrow, subbers.
Lawrie Williams does the Minera IRL EGM clownfest
It's well worth reading Lawrie Williams' (Sharps/Pixley etc) take on the craziness of the Minera IRL (IRL.to) (MIR.L) EGM last Thursday, as he puts his sharp pen and professionalism to work on the story. Here's a short excerpt:
"The EGM vote suspension is a total fiasco and is put down to some irregularities with some of the votes in terms of Ontario securities legislation – here its should perhaps be noted that Minera IRL Ltd. – the parent company – is not actually a Canadian company and the TSX is one of three exchanges on which it is quoted with shareholders virtually split between the three (LSE AIM, TSX, and Lima) as we are given to understand it. Shares are currently suspended effectively awaiting the outcome of the new EGM."
Read it all here, you'll be glad you did.
NV Gold (NVX.v): A late Friday classic NR
See it. Read it. Believe it.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Nov 27, 2015) - NV Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE:NVX) (the "Company") announced today that it and its wholly-owned Nevada subsidiary, NV Gold Corporation (USA) (NVX US"), have entered into an Asset Purchase and Sale and Debt Repayment Agreement (the "Agreement") with Mr. John E. Watson, the Company's President and CEO. Under the Agreement:
- NVX US will sell its Afgan-Kobeh Property (the "Afgan Property") to Mr. Watson for US$304,626;
- the Company will sell the shares and debts of its wholly-owned Swiss subsidiary, SwissGold Exploration AG ("SGE") to Mr. Watson for US$50,000; and
- the Company will use all of the proceeds of such sales to repay debts owed to Mr. Watson.
Interestingly, Mr. Watson is currently paid $25,000 per month by NVX.v, but as they don't have any cash to pay him it's just been adding up in the current liabilities column.
I wonder why?
And as a little cherry on top of this particular cake, Watson's salary was increased this year from $22,500 in 2014.
Mining Press has the cool photo
Pinto and Benavides, from this note here.
The report is in Spanish (Mining Press is a Chilean/Peruvian publication) but it's also pretty good as a general "what you need to know" about the Minera IRL soap opera. If you're versed in the tongue of Cervantes, it's recommended (and if not there's always Google Translate).
The Friday OT: Led Zeppelin; Kashmir (from Celebration Day live)
From the concert with Jason on drums.
Credit due, they sounded great. I mean, they could have turned up and played acoustic-only versions that a tribute band knocks out and the crowd would have lapped it up, but Led Zep did the reunion at a top notch level.
More crispy ginger beef
Thanks are due to a reader who will remain anonymous for forwarding this mail, sent to a whole bunch of Fasken lawyers and people yesterday evening by "Bill" (who knows them well, it seems):
You must be distraught over how shareholders are being ignored by this board. Perhaps you and your firm could represent the shareholders in a class action to enforce the results of today's vote? Sr. Pinto is in town so you could serve notice tonight over some crispy ginger beef at The Pilot. Oh, wait...Laugh it off, d-bag. It's just your career at stake. You could always fail up into government.Hey Chuck-a-LK, what would happen if someone documented everything you did and started feeding it to all your colleagues and partners? You think they'd come galloping to your rescue? I bet not. All those Osgoode grads worked so hard, you think they're going to let a schiester like you stand in the way of making partner?We can start with Ruth?Google it Ruth. Chuck had a good day today at the Minera IRL shareholders EGM. And don't make me send you an lmgtfy link. Ruth, you gotta try the crispy ginger beef. Chuck will make you some. Just ask him.Not that Chuck gives a damn about what the shareholders voted for or anything. His buddy Hodges got voted out at the last meeting and now he's bitter. Gonna pillage a village in Peru I think. And a mine or two.You should see all the racist stuff someone had some journalists to write as agit-prop leading up to the meeting. Did Fasken look after that?How far is Fasken going to let Chuck drag them into this? Let me know. I'm looking for a lawyer myself. Will Fasken accept service? Can they, if they were colluding with the plaintiffs? Will Fasken be a plaintiff? Only time will tell, won't it Chuck-a-LK?Cheers, Bill
SP Angel on Minera IRL
The Minera IRL Ltd NR on yesterday's clownfest is already out in London (link here), they're bound to put it on MarketWired in about half an hour.
Anyway, here's SP Angel, from this link. As usual, right on the button.
Minera IRL (LON:MIRL) SUSPENDED – EGM adjourned despite Rebels holding >90% of votes, questions over handful of shares
• The chairman yesterday adjourned the Minera EGM. We are told the adjournment was over potential irregularities over a handful of shares.
• Diego Benavides and his supporters are now forced to wait till the next EGM which can be called at anytime but no later than 17 December.
• Long suffering shareholders must now wait, while the company is effectively paralysed, racking up costs at a time when, we believe >90% of the shares have been cast in support of sacking the entire board. Do Turkeys every vote for Christmas? We hope these turkeys get a proper roasting by shareholders when this is all said and done.
• In a further twist: we are also told that a key shareholder has agreed to buy Rio Tinto's 19% stake and is seeking to be elected to the board
Conclusion: Do Turkeys every vote for Christmas? We hope these turkeys get a proper roasting by shareholders when this is all said and done.
* SP Angel analysts are expressing their own views and opinions in this analysis. SP Angel has no corporate connection with Minera IRL or its subsidiaries. SP Angel holds no shares in Minera IRL and does not have any current financial arrangements with the company.
Merry Christmas Chuck
The Samarco tailings dam disaster: A video
AJ+ has put together this one minute 39 second video that you have to see. The scale of the disaster that they don't want you to know about up North is starting to come to light.
Here's the AJ Youtube blurb:
Brazil's Doce River has turned orange and is full of dead fish after one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history. The polluted waste contains arsenic, zinc, copper and mercury and has cut off the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of people and left fishermen devastated.
Crispy ginger beef
Minera IRL (IRL.to) (MIRL.L): So here's how I'm guessing this works
No special info here, just my best guess. Mail in if you have better ideas.
1) Due to any old BS excuse, Jaime "NOT HODGES!" Pinto (backed by fellow scumbags Hodges and Higgins) suspends today's meeting.
2) Pinto says that the EGM will reconvene in "two or three weeks", however the board is under no obligation to stick to that timeframe.
3) Meanwhile, they want the board meeting of the subsidiary Minera IRL SA to go ahead, at which point they kick out Diego Benavides as president of the subsidiaries.
4) As a matter of fact (and deny it all they like, we 100% know the real plan down this way and even know the name of the buyer) the only thing that's been stopping Team Hodges from stripping the Ollachea asset out the company and selling it for peanuts to a third party has been the defence of the subsidiaries by Diego Benavides.
5) Therefore, these scumbags in Team Hodges are going to try and force the Minera IRL SA board meeting in Lima to go ahead and as soon as they get control, sell all assets out the company to their third party buyer.
6) If Benavides postpones the Minera IRL SA meeting, they'll just keep postponing the Minera IRL Ltd meeting up there.
Canadian scum.
UPDATE: I've been getting good and interesting feedback from this conjecture post. Thanks to one and all. We'll get more solid thoughts out later.
UPDATE: I've been getting good and interesting feedback from this conjecture post. Thanks to one and all. We'll get more solid thoughts out later.
The Minera IRL (IRL.to) (MIRL.L) EGM has been suspended
These Team Hodges scumbags couldn't go any lower, they need castrating in a public arena. Due to them being out-voted by an overwhelming majority, they simply hide behind anything they can find and run away like cowards. They're pretending that Ontario law abides for a company that works under Jersey law. Seriously, grabbing at any straws they can. And thus the meeting has been suspended, due to assholes.
Want to know why Canada's mining industry is dying a death? It's due to asswipes like Chuck Higgins and Daryl Hodges, ably assisted by "respected Peruvian lawyers" like Jaime Pinto.
And by some incredible surprise, Daryl Hodges and his rotten taste in bad quality footwear showed up at the Minera IRL EGM, held in his matey mate Chuck Higgins' place of work.
Minera IRL (IRL.to) (MIRL.L): Jaime Pinto shows his true colours at the EGM
Because he's lost, Jaime Pinto, who is chairing the EGM currently taking place in Toronto, is refusing to count the votes. He's appealing to a ridiculous and petty technicality that has no basis whatsoever.
Like a little spoiled brat kid.
Tell me again about the "respected Peruvian lawyer"? What a joke.
PS: To pass the time until all this stupidity gets sorted out, take a look at this wiki biog.
PPS: And this. Take a good hard look at this and while you do, think about how the Canadian scumbags in Team Hodges have ruined what he built. I cannot believe that Doug Jones is allowing this.
PS: To pass the time until all this stupidity gets sorted out, take a look at this wiki biog.
PPS: And this. Take a good hard look at this and while you do, think about how the Canadian scumbags in Team Hodges have ruined what he built. I cannot believe that Doug Jones is allowing this.
Chart of the day is...
Endeavour Silver (EDR.to) (EXK): Sweet mother of holy children, what a pathetic excuse for a mining company
Tonight's NR "Endeavour Silver Announces At-the-Market Offering of Up to US$16.5 Million" out of Bad Crook's Mexican mining company saw your humble scribe burst out laughing. Not out of surprise mind you, just the whole chutzpah thing this most cringe-worthy of mining companies has going for it.
There's going to be a piece on this company and this news in Sunday's edition of The IKN Weekly (IKN342), another in our series of salutary tales about just why you, dear and kind retail mining company investor, really really REALLY need to pay attention to balance sheets.
PS: Bad Crook is paid $40,000 per month. Cash.
The use of passive voice in mining company news releases, IAMGOLD (IMG.to) (IAG) edition
It could be done through this humble corner of cyberspace's famed Ottotrans, but in this we're about the use of annoying grammar tricks rather than content. And passive voice, my stars it's annoying and anyone who's riled at a politico who says "Mistakes were made" instead of "we made mistakes" will know the score on this one.
IAMGOLD, unably mismanaged by the apparently un-moveable Steve Letwin, shortlisted for World's Worst CEO for the last three years, gave us this pearl this evening (IKN highlights):
Five experts in rock mechanics, four of whom were mandated by the Company and one by the CSST, have made their recommendations after concluding that the root causes of the rock burst have been identified.
Why can't they just tell it as it is, write "We Totally Farked Up" and be done?
A fine quality musical interlude for your Wednesday viewing and listening pleasure
Talking Heads, Once In A Lifetime.
Posted from a shotgun shack in another part of the world.
Daniel Earle of TD Sec moves Guyana Goldfields (GUY.to)
This morning pre-bell, Daniel Earle of TD Sec upgraded Guyana Goldfields (GUY.to) to spec buy and stuck a $4.00 target on the thing. And the reaction?
Not bad Dan, not bad at all. That's some heavy-hitting action for a bear market, Dan. You're boxing clever there, Dan. Hey, could you do the same for B2Gold soon? Thanks in advance.
Who got the Sweetheart-Level deal on SilverCrest Metals?
People who never lose got in at Sweetheart Level:
This SilverCrest Metals (the spin-out from when SVLC managed to sucker Neumeyer into buying its main assets) funding round is a great example of how badly the deck is stacked against retail. Data from here.
Luis Suarez scores a goal
Ah, now this is something. From the Barsa 6 Roma 1 game last night.
Chart of the day is...
...coffee futures, long-term chart:
There comes a point when people who grow coffee refuse to sell it to you up there.
What racism in mining sounds like
Yesterday's piece by John Cumming in Northern Miner about the Minera IRL (MIRL.L) (IRL.to) saga was obviously heavily biased towards Team Hodges (for example calling Daryl Hodges "savvy" and implying he had something to do with raising the $70m from COFIDE when in fact the charlatan is only savvy about money when it involves his own back pocket), but hey...there's ignorance everywhere. However, it's one of those rare occasions when the racist element in mining in South America, by which we refer to all you White Men With Burdens who come this way to kindly teach the locals and then start moaning when they don't react the way you require, shows its ugly head.
"If the Benavides-led group wins the day, Minera IRL Ltd. will quietly disappear into Peru's mountains and jungles as the potential riches of the Ollachea gold project are squandered, and the town of Ollachea will ineluctably return to its centuries-long roots as a small-minded artisanal mining community, rather than an emerging modern mining camp."
The problem here: You get to hear this type of crap from the voices of White Male Miners in South America far too much, but it's normally when the hour is late, the wine bottles are three quarters done and the music is low. The sentiment above is all too common, the only rarity is seeing it in print.
For the record John Cumming, aside from the fact that you don't know what you're talking about and aside from the way the "natives-with-feathers-in-their-hair" have already put together a $240m financing deal without the help of Canada, you're a piece of shit.
UPDATE: Best mail so far comes from reader 'BB':
Yup. Once upon a time 'Northern Miner' was the media of record for the mining industry. Oh how the mighty fall. John Cumming would be instantly dismissed for that type of racist scumbaggery in any publication worth its salt. NM is one of those that hasn't atrophied and died with a bang, but with a whimper.
UPDATE: Best mail so far comes from reader 'BB':
"I almost choked on my muffin this morning when I read that quote from the loser at that publication without an editor. I guess they have free WiFi at The Pilot where I'm assuming he wrote it."
Yup. Once upon a time 'Northern Miner' was the media of record for the mining industry. Oh how the mighty fall. John Cumming would be instantly dismissed for that type of racist scumbaggery in any publication worth its salt. NM is one of those that hasn't atrophied and died with a bang, but with a whimper.
Jemi Fibre (JFI.v): Bobby Genovese understands how the stock market works
He turns this...
...into this:
My isn't he clever?
Posting will be light today
Things to do.
Catch you all tomorrow.
Yamana Gold (YRI.to) (AUY) thinks Brio Gold is worth $369.3m
Seriously! I'm not joking, it says so right here:
YAMANA GOLD INC. (YRI.TO)(AUY) ("Yamana" or the "Company") hereby announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary Brio Gold Inc. ("Brio Gold") has commenced a private placement of Brio Gold common shares, consisting of a primary offering by Brio Gold and a secondary offering by Yamana. The implied initial post-money valuation of Brio Gold based on the private placement is approximately $369.3 million.The primary offering as currently planned will fully fund the near-term business plan for Brio Gold with the majority of proceeds expected to (continues here)
And with a secondary, too...
Yes it's true, you gringos really will buy anything, won't you?
Minera IRL (IRL.to) (MIRL.L): Jaime Pinto's mathematics problem
Here's a photo of the newspaper advertisement run by Minera IRL Team Hodges in a Peruvian newspaper today (that's costing you the shareholder money, of course):
Please note that Team Hodges has included the so-called declaration of the people of Ollachea in the advert. And underneath they write in Spanish (translation your author) "The position represented by Mr. Diego Benavides does not represent the sentiment of the majority of the population."
Okay, we got that straight? Now for three facts:
1) Thanks to his source inside Team Hodges, your author has today seen a copy of the full declaration that's featured in the advert above, including the signatures page.
2) It is signed by a total of 147 people.
3) The Official Registry of Community members of Ollachea has a total of 760 people.
Therefore we can state that even if all the people who signed the Team Hodges declaration are legit (and let us recall that the Community has already identified and reported to Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines that there are false signatures on the list) and even if all signatures were voluntary (they weren't and there's proof of that as well, again in the hands of the relevant authorities) and even if all the names on the list are real members of the community of Ollachea and on the official list, the number of people who signed on represent 19.3% of the town's population.
Seriously Jaime Pinto, is that all you got? After the bribes, the threats and the corruption? And from that you put together this smear campaign to try and fool people into voting for you? Even without the criminal charges now hanging over the heads of you and your cohorts, it's pretty pathetic.
I mean, would you hire a man as a company head who can't do math?
PS: Yes reporters, I am willing to share.
Something that Jaime 'NOT HODGES!' Pinto now knows
On this fine and bright Monday morning, Jaime NOT HODGES Pinto now knows things that most of you don't. For example, he now knows that last night's revelation that Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) is investigating his actions in Ollachea over the last couple of weeks, as reported in the Team Benavides news release, is just the tip of a very large iceberg.
Buh-bye, Jaime Pinto. Buh-bye.
PS: By the way Jaime, "respected Peruvian lawyer" is an oxymoron.
UPDATE: Best mail of the day (so far) comes from 'DT', regular reader and market professional. He keeps it short'n'sweet:
UPDATE: Best mail of the day (so far) comes from 'DT', regular reader and market professional. He keeps it short'n'sweet:
For the love of all that is holy, you rarely get to see fireworks of this magnitude. Well, I guess we know how this is going to end up now.
Chart of the day is...
...the gold/silver ratio:
I'm constantly amazed at how memory-challenged the silverbug community is.
The single most impressive news release I've ever read
Team Benavides Minera IRL (IRL.to) (MIRL.L) has published the following today.
Jaime Pinto thought it was going to be Team Hodges versus Team Benavides. He thought that "he who shouts loudest wins", no matter what sort of lies and BS he comes out with. But there's always something that this sort of person will miss and that's what has happened to Jaime Pinto this weekend.
It's now Team Hodges versus THE MINISTRY OF ENERGY AND MINES OF PERU. Oh yeah. Say buh-bye, Jaime Pinto. Wave buh-bye.
Investigation by the Ministry of Energy and Mines During Visit to Ollachea Finds Acts of Social Disruption and Illegitimacy of Published Statements
Lima, 23 November 2015, Minera IRL SA reports that a visit by a representative of the Ministry of Energy and Mining to the Community of Ollachea, where the Ollachea Gold Project is located, found acts of social disruption had been instigated by the non Executive President of Minera IRL Limited and that illegitimate statements supposedly representing the Community had been published by the same individual.
· A specialist representative for the region of Puno from the Ministry of Energy and Mining visited the Community of Ollachea last Saturday 21 of November, interviewing community members and representatives of Company Minera Kuri Kullu, (a subsidiary of Minera IRL SA), demonstrating the illegitimacy of a supposed community statement that non executive President Jaime Pinto promoted and made public through a press release.
· The issued statement and other acts of disturbing public peace, public defamation, usurping of functions, and acts against public faith were promoted by Jaime Pinto and Don McIver, VP of Exploration, with the objective of trying to obtain favourable votes in the upcoming shareholders EGM to be held on November 26.
· The details of these actions will be made known in the near future and the legally recognized authorities of the Rural Community of Ollachea will file criminal charges. The Ministry of Energy and Mining, through their office of Social Affairs, has been informed from the visit to Ollachea of all of these actions, and along with proof and testimonies, will be conducting their own investigation.
"We are shocked by the mistreatment and perverse approach of Mr Pinto towards the Community of Ollachea. We commit all our efforts to restore the trust and commitment that the Community and Company have built and maintained over 8 years, that have permitted us to achieve all our permitting and financing for the Ollachea Gold Project. We hope to recuperate the lost time due to the stress of the Company, in order to shortly begin construction," stated Diego Benavides, President of Minera IRL SA and Minera Kuri Kullu SA.
The Rural Community of Ollachea rejects and declares null and void the Declaration of Minera IRL Ltd (published in its press release of the 21 of November), as its contents do not reflect the position of the Community, do not have the authorization of the Community President nor the General Assembly of the Community, who are the only bodies authorized to express the views of the Community. What is more, the Declaration of Minera IRL Ltd contains one or more falsified signatures which have been proven by comparing them to those in the Official Registry of Community Members, which has a total of 760 persons registered.
The use by Mr Pinto and Mr McIver of a small group of community members, known for their negative approach and desire for personal gain, to intimidate and threaten signatures from local people, has been denounced by the Community to the Ministry of Energy and Mining.
Mr. Pinto is currently under investigation for corruption by the Second Provincial Fiscal Court Specialized in Crimes of Functionary Corruption (2da Fiscalía Provincial Penal Especializada en Delitos de Corrupción de Funcionarios), regarding the loss for the State of Peru of some U$50m due to the purchase of sovereign debt during Mr. Pinto's time at the Ministry of Economy and Finances (MEF).
Also, during his time as Executive Chairman of Mantaro Peru SA, a subsidiary of Stonegate Agricom of the Sprott Group, Canada, Mr. Pinto supervised actions of agitation and division among neighbouring communities to a phosphate project in the Central highlands of Peru, which resulted in the permanent paralyzation of the project.
Mr Don McIver currently faces charges brought by Peru's Criminal Investigation Directorate (Dirección Investigación Criminal DIRINCRI) for the illicit appropriation and disposal of assets of Minera IRL SA. Along with Mr. Carlos Yrigoyen, Controller, and Yuri Valdiviezo, Head of Exploration, it is alleged that Mr. McIver appropriated and destroyed the exploration drill core of the Corihuarmi mine, valued at over U$1m, in an action connected to the intention of the current Board to close the Corihuarmi mine, the only source of income of the company. The destruction of the drill core has impeded the continued geological model of the deposit.
In conclusion, the Community of Ollachea exhorts Mr Pinto and Mr McIver to abstain from continuing with this campaign of defamation and public disorder in regard to the decisions of the Community. Also, the Community wishes to inform that on November 28 it will hold a General Community Assembly to report on legal actions to be pursued and to make decisions regarding the group of Community members who were bribed in order to generate dissent in the Community.
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Argentina: La Nacion is calling Macri the winner...
...with 53% of the vote. For what it's worth, though anti-CFK I'd trust La Nacion to call it right, certainly more than the extreme supporters on either side of the fence.
If so, that's roughly in line with pre-vote intention polls. Read all about it here
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I am getting old fast. What can I do about it?
In the past three days, I have presented 10 separate classes for a total of 10 hours of teaching. Not surprisingly, I got very tired and had to take a recuperative nap to keep going. There was a time when I could have taught twice as long with absolutely no effect and not needed a nap. I can probably chalk up my current lack of stamina to a lack of physical exercise and incipient old age. But in looking around at the genealogists in my classes, I see that most of us have the same issues. We are not as young as we once were and will likely have to learn how to pace ourselves.
So how do we do genealogy and at the same time cope with creeping old age?
I decided to put my answers in the form of resolutions which I will likely promptly forget, but need to be made.
Resolution No. 1: I resolve to get up and walk around the room at least every hour to make sure I still can.
I have been reading some horror stories of the effects of prolonged sitting and perhaps they are true. If they are, writing on a computer for 12 to 14 hours a day is probably puts me in the critical risk category.
Resolve No. 2: I resolve to try to remember all of my grandchildren's names at least once a day.
I have 32 and it takes about 30 seconds or so to run through all the names. This is is my check for incipient dementia. Although usually about half way through the list, I remember something I have forgotten to do or come up with another blog topic and get sidetracked out of the whole task and end up back at the computer writing furiously.
Resolve No. 3: I resolve to do more of my own genealogy in the future.
This really doesn't have anything to do with growing older per se. It does however have a lot to do with how much "time on target" I still have left to do the work I need to finish or get mostly done. If you are not familiar with the term "time on target" you probably did not spend as much time in the Army as I did.
OK, enough of that. The real reason for this post is the background question of how to involve the youth in genealogy so that there is a new generation of genealogists that will carry on where we leave off when we all check out one way or another. As I looked out over the people yesterday, that was one of my many thoughts. Each of these people, to a greater or lesser extent, is going to spend time accumulating some genealogy about their families. What will happen to all that work when they (and we all) die?
I know that in some cases this is a matter of very small consequence both to the individual involved and the individual's family. This would be the results if the information consisted primarily of copies of easily obtained documents and a minimal pedigree that could easily be reconstructed from online sources. But what about the core of the real hoarders among us, including myself and many other I know about. We have mountains of paper and huge complicated computer files. A very few of us have collections of documents and paper that deserves preservation in a formal archive, library or other repository, but for the most part those of us will less well connected pedigrees have documents valuable to only future family members. How do we face the oceans of antipathy towards genealogy, built up in our families and those surrounding us?
I did a quick mental count and I would guess that between my wife's genealogy papers and my own, we likely have close to fifty banker's boxes of paper and more than 3 TBs of scanned documents and photographs not to mention all the stuff I have online. I am sure that there are many out there with more or similar piles to deal with. This is a major ongoing issue and needs to be addressed in an organized and consistent manner. There are social, legal and other consequences that are very much unresolved and unaddressed in both our families and our society at large.
I would propose that this subject become a regular topic of discussion. I don't know if we need to form yet another group online, but all aspects of the questions facing our genealogical community and the ongoing transition of genealogical data from one generation to the next is an overriding topic. Let's suppose that FamilySearch and other organizations were successful in awakening some degree of interest in "family history" or whatever among those of the younger generation. What are the young people going to do about the mountains of paperwork they inherit from us? Throw it in the nearest dumpster? Do these young people really want to face organizing and curating mountains of paper, especially if they don't even know how to read the cursive they are written in?
Does FamilySearch and the rest who are in the process of engaging the youth have some sort of idea how they are going to keep from losing their present legacy of genealogists by abandoning basic research skills in favor of modified online computer games aimed at engaging the youth in genealogy?
Maybe it is time we acknowledge the fact that the stories, photos and documents that the youth are trying to put online are coming from the efforts made by a vanishingly small group of old people who are now being abandoned to their devices in an effort to engage the youth. Maybe we need to focus on preserving these important accumulations of documents in the possession of old folks like me across the world in addition to and as the basis for having a new generation of young people who can do more than play computer games.
The challenges consist of really serious legal, social, organizational and cultural issues that are presently only being discussed in the periphery of the genealogical community. The question is simply this:
How do we preserve what we already have in the way of our genealogical heritage including paper, digital and oral history and still add younger adherents to the genealogical community? How many of the young people at RootsTech 2014 or otherwise went home and called their grandparents to tell them they would like to help with all the genealogy they had? I am still waiting for mine to call and none of mine went to RootsTech 2014. Will the same thing happen to my genealogy records as happened to my Great-grandmothers' records? That the records were neglected for two generations until I found them and partially preserved them? Yes, I too was once young and clueless. Fortunately, I started this epic journey into the world of genealogy while still in my 30s and didn't wait until I "retired" when all of the documents and photos would have been permanently lost.
OK FamilySearch and all you others out there. Listen Up. What about all the huge amounts of data you already have out here in genealogy land? What are you going to do about it? Youth are great. Involving the youth are great. But are they going to have to redo everything that has already been done simply because old genealogist are no longer worth worrying about? Are we all in favor of dumping the old guys in favor of the computer game generation? Can't we both work together to accomplish the work we need to do?
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Love this topic - I think about it often! I will inherit my parent's family history records, which are plentiful - but my children will not want to dedicate a room to preserve the books, letters, photo and boxes of family records. I need a plan, so let's keep the discussion going!ReplyDelete
Did you notice that most of the attendees at RootsTech2014 were wider and thicker than good health would suggest?ReplyDeleteReplies
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It was your class at the Family History Expo in Colorado Springs last year that brought this matter to my attention, James. I've felt almost panicky about getting my research scanned and online for my descendants. I don't have the volume you have, but I have more than my only son will want to drag home. Two boxes is one box more than he wants or his wife will allow. I'm disappointed, but I do understand. I will need to take apart my 3-ring binders each dedicated to ancestors and scan them. I'm uploading all of it to Dropbox and backing up many places. Hope I live long enough to get that done. But I don't know what you'd do with the volume you possess, James! By the way, I LOVED this article because it's on my mind daily. Thank you for writing about this.ReplyDeleteReplies
That is one advantage of FamilySearch Family Tree, because it is not fee based, the information will persist despite loss of the payments. There are other options also, publication is one of them and donation to a library or other institution in another.Delete


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Nano-code ups fight against counterfeiters
Tiny sentinel A newly developed 'invisible' tag could help thwart banknote forgers and criminals who sell bogus drugs or fake vintage wine.
Quick response (QR) codes - a square of black and white pixels that can be scanned by a smartphone - have become commonplace in recent years.
It is being used more and more by museums and companies who want to provide additional information about an exhibition, product or service. But this new invention uses them as a form of authentication.
Writing in the journal Nanotechnology, materials engineers led by Jon Kellar at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology says their invention comprises a QR code made of nanoparticles that have been combined with blue and green fluorescent ink.
The code, generated with standard computer-aided design (CAD) equipment, is sprayed onto a surface - paper, plastic film, office tape, glass - using an aerosol jet printer.
It remains invisible until the object is illuminated by a near-infrared laser.
The nanoparticles absorb photons at a non-visible wavelength but emit them in a visible wavelength, a trick called upconversion that causes the QR code to pop up almost like magic and allow itself to be scanned.
To see whether the code would stand some of the stresses of banknotes, the researchers printed it onto a piece of paper and then randomly folded it 50 times, without affecting its readability.
"We have done significant wear tests, and all indications are that the ink is very durable," says Kellar.
Raising the bar
He admits though that it was not the final answer to forgers.
"We believe it raises a bar that needs to be continually raised. Counterfeiters are very clever and have access to technology, so we will continue to improve our technology."
The study's lead author, Jeevan Meruga, says the innovation offers many options for an upgrade.
"We can take the level of security from covert to forensic by simply adding a microscopic message in the QR code, in a different coloured upconverting ink, which then requires a microscope to read the upconverted QR code," he says.
The technique is simple and not time-consuming, according to the scientists.
Printing en masse for commercial use would only take about 10-15 minutes.
"We have not as of yet done a critical review of costs, so we cannot say anything (about prices) at this point," says Kellar.
Near-infrared lasers are quite cheap and easy to operate, and could be used for authentication "outside of the lab" provided the eyes are protected, he says.


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So who should walk off with both honours? None other than our very own S-Pulse! Yep, we won both the best and the worst shirt award. So let's have a look at the competition we beat off to claim these crowns.
All images are from the excellent Rising Sun website which put the time and effort in to find them, upload them, and to run the polls.
The Best Ever J. League Shirt
There have been some classic shirts over the J. League's short history. The full poll for best ever kit, and competing shirts can be found here. Here I present my pick of the candidates:
The Best Ever J. League Shirt Award Goes to...
Well, now let's have a look at the J. League shirt hall of shame. There are some real works of art in the full poll which you can look at here. Again, here's my pick of the action!
Bellmare Hiratsuka (1994-96) - My eyes! My eyes!
Sanfrecce Hiroshima (1997) - Hiroshima go all Scottish to honour the arrival of Eddie Thomson as manager
Verdy Kawasaki (1993-94) - This actually makes me feel a little bit sick
The Worst Ever J. League Shirt Award Goes to...
The trend towards simplism is fine, but here's hoping that five or six years down the line we see a return to the garish and outlandish shirts of the mid nineties.
In the meantime, hold your heads up high S-Pulse fans, and wear your 90's shirts with even greater pride than usual - they're award winning!


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Welcome to beer country. The well-signposted Beer and Castle Route runs 500 km along the B85 road from the East Bavarian "City of the Three Rivers" Passau to Bad Frankenhausen in Thuringia on the southern slope of the Kyffhäuser Mountains. The route promises plenty of cosy, sociable drinking spots, art, culture, nature and good food, a lively combination of activities that combine fun, history and of course, the amber nectar itself.
Peppered with a wealth of attractions, the Beer and Castle Route offers visitors a varied insight into tradition, sagas, legends, modern life, art and architecture and the chance to experience a piece of German history while surrounded by the unspoiled countryside of scenic nature reserves, romantic rivers and sleepy valleys.
A place to linger
Fans of German history will find ample opportunity for excursions in the Kyffhäuser Mountains, the jewel in the crown of this route. In addition to the spellbinding Barbarossa Cave (Barbarossahöhlen), you should also make sure to visit the Thuringian Forest and the famous Rennsteig trail. The Thuringian Saaleland and Thuringian Highlands (Schiefergebirge) that so fascinated Goethe are also unmissable.
A place where travel becomes an experience
The inspirational perfection of the Franconian Forest and Franconian Switzerland has long held a place in the hearts of big-city folk who have grown weary of tarmac and pavements. Meanwhile the town of Jura in the Upper Palatinate region is known for its austere beauty and incomparable richness, and the Bavarian Forest for its endless, mysterious woodland: the perfect place to lie back and gaze dreamily at the sky.
Come along for the ride!
Plan a boat trip on the Danube or watch a glassblower at work. Memorials to a by-gone age, the impressive fortresses and imposing castles along this route are also pieces of "living history", which often had prosperous cities grow up around them.
Four letters, just one word: beer
The beer along the route is of course provided by the breweries, each of which has its own secret recipe. Those who enjoy a cosy beer with friends have the chance to compare the skill and ability of master brewers from both Thuringia and Bavaria. However, beer lovers will certainly find it hard to choose! The range of beers on offer is extensive and includes dark full-bodied beers, fine Pilsners, refreshing wheat beers and smooth bock beers.
Beer makes the world go round
On a brewery tour or visit to a brewery museum, you can find out how best to enjoy beer, and much more besides. Poets, philosophers and crowned heads of state loved beer and love it still. What's more, every 23 April marks the anniversary of the German Beer Purity Law which came into effect in 1516. Four letters, over one thousand brands and each with its own unique flavour: beer is firmly cemented in cultural history. The sheer variety of the Beer and Castle Route means that each and every traveller is sure to discover something of interest.
Length: approximately 500 km
Theme: culture, gastronomy
Amberg: old quarter, Theuern Castle, museums
Apolda: castle, museums
Bad Blankenburg: Greifenstein Castle, bird of prey centre (Adler- und Falkenhof)
Bad Frankenhausen: salt water spa, leaning tower, Kyffhäuser monument
Bayreuth: UNESCO World Heritage Site, Festival Theatre, Maisel Brewery and Cooperage Museum
Kronach: Heunischenburg fortress, Fortress Rosenberg
Kulmbach: Plassenburg Castle, Bavarian Museum of Brewing and Baking
Ludwigstadt: Lauenstein Castle, Slate Museum
Mitwitz: moated palace, Upper Palace, St. Jacob's Church (Jakobskirche)
Passau: the City of the Three Rivers, Veste Oberhaus fortress, cathedral
Regen: Weißenstein Castle, glass forest
Rudolstadt: Heidecksburg Castle, palace
Weimar: Goethe's Garden House (Goethes Gartenhaus), National Museum, Duchess Anna Amalia Library (Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek)
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President Obama Doesn't Need a Visitor's Pass to Speak to Students.
The President wants to talk to the students of America. Evidently, his intention is to encourage students to take their school year more seriously and take greater personal responsibility for their education.
Not so fast.
We are going to need to see an ID.
Somebody needs to stop by the office, sign in, and get a visitor's badge before he will be allowed to speak to kids.
Mr. President, you just can't just show up and demand an audience with our students.
Who do you think you are?
This idea of the President of the United States addressing school children has sparked a great deal of discussion.
Educators have been debating this speech for the last couple of weeks. It has been a topic of discussion on Twitter, Plurk, listserv's and blogs.
In my mind, schools have reacted rather predictably.
The speech is a new idea.
So it must be a bad idea.
Far too many adults seem to be forming their opinions based upon their political beliefs.
Personally, I think this idea needs to pass the "Say It Out Loud Test".
This method is tried and true.
If you want to see if something is a good idea or a bad idea… simply say it out loud.
So here I go. "President Obama wants to speak directly to school children so he can encourage them to work hard and take school seriously."
Sounds good to me. Plus, I am willing to give him the benefit of that doubt because he is… The President of the United States of America.
All too often teachers and administrators complain about schools not getting well-deserved respect.
Now the President wants to help by encouraging students to do better… they must do better.
I say we give him a chance.
Just this once, let's not be overly paranoid about a stranger speaking to our students.
Let's give a new idea a chance before we sit around and come up with a long list of reasons why it won't work.
This is a great opportunity to not only teach students the importance of listening, but also the importance of respecting the highest office in the land.
So, echoing Michael Smith, I don't think enough can be said about the importance of respecting the highest office in the land. Thank God we live in a country where we get to believe and vote as we will every four years.
If we want our children to respect adults (something many of us feel is an area of "Needs Improvement"), starting with the President seems like a really good place to me. ANY president Shouldn't Need a Visitor's Pass to Speak to Students.


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Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic
Yale University Press, 1992 - Literary Criticism - 201 pages
Readers have long been enthralled by the novels of Wilkie Collins, whose The Moonstone is considered the first modern detective novel. This book by Tamar Heller--the most comprehensive study of Collins's work ever written--places Collins within Victorian literary history, showing how his fiction transforms the conventions of the traditionally female genre of the Gothic novel and can be read as a critique of the gender and class distinctions that structured Victorian society. Heller offers an insightful account of the ways in which Collins's work in the female Gothic tradition influenced his characteristic themes and imagery. She also explores how this association with the genres of the Gothic and with controversial "sensation fiction" linked Collins with women writers and literary and social marginality during an era when novel writing was increasingly a male-defined and male-dominated profession. Heller argues that Collins's fictions reflect his own contradictory status as a Victorian writer; his novels focus on the relation of the writer to the literary marketplace and also on the intricate and ambivalent dialectic of masculine literary authority and feminine marginality. This study of Collins makes an original contribution to feminist literary criticism by demonstrating its value for the reexamination of an important male writer. In addition, by exploring the complexity of the relationship of a male writer to a feminine literary tradition, the book breaks new ground in the study of literary influence and in critical discussions of the literary canon.
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Bahamas Plane Crash: 4 Americans Die in Sightseeing Flight in Bahamas (VIDEO)
A Bahamas plane crash has killed four Americans after their single engine aircraft crashed into waters just a few miles out from Grand Bahama Island, in what appears to be a tragic accident.
The crash took place on Sunday close to the island, which is the northern-most island in the Bahamas, according to officials.
It is believed the four American citizens had hired the aircraft as tourists and were flying to get a bird's eye view of the islands when the plane went down.
Police Superintendent Stephen Dean said, "All are believed to be Americans. It is thought they were on some kind of sightseeing tour."
According to reports, the Cirrus 22 plane went down just minutes after taking off from the island's international airport. Police have confirmed that the pilot had radioed in report that the plane was having engine problems.
Authorities are now investigating what might have caused the plane to go down, and they have not yet released the names of the victims publicly.
Just last week there was another aircraft incident in the Bahamas; an air crew from the U.S. Coast Guard were forced to rush into action to rescue two men stranded in the water. The two men plunged into the water when their twin engine plane crashed. The U.S. Coast Guard launched an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter to rescue them.
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Pacers steamroll short-handed Nuggets
- David West had 25 points in Indiana%27s rout of Denver
- Monday marked the Pacers first win over the Nuggets since November 2010
- Denver is playing without Andre Miller%2C Danila Gallinari and JaVale McGee%2C among others
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — All David West wanted to do Monday night was get his team playing the right way.
He made sure of it.
West scored 25 points in less than 27 minutes and Roy Hibbert added 14 as the NBA's top team dominated the middle and blew past short-handed Denver 119-80 for its most lopsided win this season.
"We played with the right attitude. We came out aggressively. We got off to a good start," West said. "Tonight, we made a concentrated effort to get to the goal. No letdowns."
For the Pacers (40-11), it was just another stepping stone victory.They still have the league's best record, best home mark (25-2) and best defense. They still lead two-time defending champion Miami, now by four games, in the Eastern Conference. They still have not lost back-to-back games since mid-December and have not lost three straight all season. They even padded their league-leading scoring differential.
And if Denver coach Brian Shaw is to be believed, they might have the best overall player in the league, too.
Shaw spent the previous two seasons working extensively to help George when he served as an Indiana assistant.
"Paul George is an All-Star starter, and I said this morning that he's the best two-way player in the game — and that includes LeBron (James) and everyone else you include," the Nuggets coach said after Indiana ended its five-game skid in this series.
The scariest part may be that the Pacers didn't even need George to be at his best Monday night.
He finished with 12 points, five rebounds and four assists — numbers mitigated by the fact the Pacers were so far ahead after three quarters that coach Frank Vogel rested his starters the entire fourth quarter and didn't play any of them more than 28½ minutes.
Instead, George was content to let West and Hibbert lead the way.
Did they ever.
West scored 21 of his points in the first half and finished 11 of 13 from the field, making his last nine shots. Not surprisingly, Indiana outscored Denver 58-36 in the paint. Hibbert finished with 12 rebounds on a night the Pacers had a 56-37 advantage.
That, combined with Denver's depleted roster, was just too much for the Nuggets (24-26) to overcome.
Denver has now lost three in a row, five of its last seven and has suffered its two most embarrassing defeats of the season in less than a week. It lost 117-90 at New York on Friday.
The Nuggets also finished with a season-worst shooting percentage (31.5), far worse than their previous low mark (36.4) against the Clippers on Dec. 21. Only three players reached double figures — Wilson Chandler with 17, J.J. Hickson with 12 and Jordan Hamilton with 11.
Only 10 players dressed for the Nuggets and their top two point guards — Ty Lawson, the Nuggets' top scorer, and backup Nate Robinson — sat out with injuries. Lawson missed the game with a fractured left rib. Robinson was out with a sprained ACL in his left knee. Randy Foye played reasonably well at an unfamiliar spot, finishing with nine points, 10 assists and only three turnovers, the Nuggets weren't the same without their two playmaking ball-handlers.
"We were just timid, unsure with everything we did," Shaw said. "Sometimes, you're overmatched. Tonight, we were overmatched."
After trailing for the only time all night, 11-10, Indiana quickly took control.
West spurred a 22-5 run that gave Indiana a 37-20 lead early in the second quarter. The Pacers then finished the half on a 14-4 run to make it 61-40, and Denver never got closer than 19 over the rest of the night.
"At this point in the season, we need every win," George said. "Tonight we were able to come out early and just execute. I thought we played with a lot of energy, we shared the ball, we did a great job defensively. We forced them to take tough shots."
Notes: Indiana's last win over Denver was a 31-point blowout in November 2010. ... The Pacers also avoided getting swept by Denver, something they had done only three times in the previous eight seasons. ... The Pacers led by 21 points at the half and by 29 after three quarters, both season bests. ... Indiana's 58 points in the paint also tied a season high. ... Denver finishes a four-game road trip Wednesday at Minnesota.


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In a great test of what happens when people believe they are "meant to be", close relationships researcher C. Raymond Knee looked at the extent to which people held Destiny Beliefs or Growth Beliefs, and the consequences of these beliefs for their relationships.
Destiny Beliefs. People who hold high destiny beliefs report that potential relationship partners are either compatible or they are not, that successful relationships are built on finding a compatible partner, and that relationships that begin poorly will inevitably fail.
Growth Beliefs. People who hold high growth beliefs report that the ideal relationship develops over time, that challenges to a relationship can make it even stronger, and that successful relationships are mostly the result of hard work and learning to resolve incompatibilities.
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Diving & Marine Conservation Volunteering in Thailand - Monthly Updates
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Conservation in Thailand - Monthly Update October 2012
Diving Based Projects:
Reef Check Survey
In October our volunteers did a total of 12 reef check survey dives, this was a great amount as the October weather was fairly kind to us. Out of the 12 surveys they did, results have shown that the species of coral that was spotted most during October was the brain coral. There was also a large amount of Moorish idols that kept our volunteers amused, not to mention 3 moray eels, one of which was a giant moray. There was also a sighting of a black tip reef shark that was also a highlight for our volunteers.
On average for October we found that 0-25% of coral was covered in algae.
Project AWARE - Dive Against Debris Survey
During the month of October we did a total of 9 dives against debris, each time as usual the volunteers covered an area of 700m2. The two main dives that had a lot more debris than the other areas were Chicken Island and Koh Chalam Noi. In those two areas at least 20kg of debris was salvaged.
The more interesting debris that was found during this month were a hat and lots of scuba gear, and as always lots of fishing line.
Endangered Species Work
During October only two sightings of endangered species were spotted. One hawksbill turtle at Maya Nui, and one green turtle at Koh See.
Land Based Projects:
Forest Regeneration
October was a busy month for working at the FORRU. On one of the Mondays the staff team from FORRU came to Dawn of Happiness to help with our own tree nursery, this took place during the green camp, so we had a lot of fun with the children from Baan Unrak. They were extremely helpful and labelled a plant each with their name so that when the plant is ready we could plant it in the Khlong Thom Forrest for them.
Apart for that the volunteers spent a lot of time at the FORRU tree nursery; they were mainly filling up potting bags with a mixture of dirt and rice husk. These bags were to get the tree nursery ready for large amounts of seedlings and we're hoping for a high success rate on germinating these seeds.
Our volunteers also helped with collecting seeds and also joined FORRU into their reforested area to clear weeds ensuring the trees that were planted are still growing strong.
Beach Clean Ups
In October we had two beach clean-up days, we did however clean three different beaches. On one of the days we did a cleanup at Ao Nang beach, where we collected over 37 kg of rubbish, the highest number of items found were cigarette butts, and unfortunately not many of these items were recyclable.
On the other clean-up day we tackled Nopharathara beach and a beach along the side of it known as Long beach. On Nopharathara Beach the highest amount of debris again seemed to be cigarette butts; however lots of plastic bags and plastic lids were picked up too. As for Long beach, on this much quieter beach we seemed to pick up mostly food wrappers and bottles, this may be because people tend to spend their lunch hours on that beach and leave their trash behind.
Turtle Rehabilitation Work
On our trip up to Phuket (PMBC) this October we were asked to help clean up the tanks that contained the smaller turtles that are on their way to being released. Our volunteers were ecstatic to handle these little sweet turtles. We had to warn some not to stick them in their pockets and take them home .
Our volunteers were also lucky enough to witness the vets at PMBC performing an autopsy on one of the turtle carcasses, it wasn't the prettiest sight but it definitely was educational. After our work was complete we did the usual where we took the volunteers for a walk through the aquarium.
Community Outreach Day
Our Community Outreach day for October was not technically a day but rather a week, where we hosted children from an orphanage at our base. The community team had their educational mornings and in the afternoons the conservation team took over for the conservation related activities and lots of fun stuff. This included a tree nursery workshop and visiting tiger temple. On Wednesday the children even got to go out on the boat where they tried out scuba diving for the very first time, this was a huge hit with the children. On the Thursday afternoon the conservation team hosted a game of bingo where prizes were given out to the children, and after we hosted a football match on our beach which again was a great success.
On the Friday, which is out usual main outreach day, we took the children out to the mangroves for an educational nature walk, after that we took them out to the cave in the twin rocks.
Later that evening we had our monthly diner (one of the most epic ones of the year), we had the certificate ceremony for the children followed by thanking the different teams and organisations that made that week possible. Then we had a big feast that Dawn of Happiness provided. Finishing off the night we had one of the children from Baan Unrak put on a fire show followed by a massive fireworks display. All the volunteers and children were extremely happy; it was very satisfying to see this.
Other Stuff
Social activities that took place this month were kayaking through the mangroves at Tha-Lane bay and a day out in Phuket at Phuket Wake Park and Phuket Bungee.
The mangrove day we started off fairly early in the morning where the volunteers kayaked from the pier through the mangroves and ended up coming out the other end of the river and kayaked upstream to the finishing point. It was a truly relaxing experience and nice to be that close to nature. We then stopped off at a stream on the way home where we had our lunch.
The Phuket day out started us off at the Wake Boarding park where our volunteers were zipping around on their boards, some were a natural, however, some did take a bit more time to get use to the fast pulling cables. After that we had 9 volunteers taking the 60 meter plunge at the Phuket Bungee Park. All around it was a great month for social activities.
Vishal Pawa
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Taste buds will be teased next month when producers and suppliers of some of West Wales' finest food and produce come together for the Pembrokeshire Food Festival.
The festival, with free entry, takes place at The Pavilion at Bluestone National Park Resort, near Narberth, on Tuesday, 10th and Wednesday, 11th September and will be a "foodies" heaven.
An abundance of local produce and beverages will be on display and sale, along with cookery demonstrations and samples.
"West Wales has so much to offer when it comes to food and drink and we're extremely proud to be able to source produce and ingredients from our community wherever we can at Bluestone," said Steve Batty, Head of Food and Beverage at Bluestone.
"The Pembrokeshire Food Festival is a great way to celebrate and showcase the wide range of fine food and produce from the region and to let visitors sample, take home and even go away with new cooking ideas using local produce."
Exhibitors will be on hand to talk about their produce and to answer any questions. A gastro restaurant will also be providing demonstrations cooked by Bluestone's very own head chefs, along with students from Pembrokeshire College.
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Bluestone is a luxury short-break holiday destination situated in the spectacular Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in West Wales with a strong sustainable and environmental ethos.
Opened in July 2008, Bluestone sits within 500 acres of countryside and woods near Narberth and close to the coastal town of Tenby. It comprises nearly 300 luxury timber lodges, cottages and studio apartments surrounding a private village.
Among its attractions are the Blue Lagoon water park and Adventure Centre, which are open to day visitors, the award-winning Well Spa and its thermal and treatment rooms, the Steep Ravine with high ropes and zip wire and the Tournamnent Field, with everything from a giant catapult to archery and crossbow action.
Bluestone offers a wide range of activities for all ages and abilities, including archery, laser clay-shooting, bushcraft, a high ropes course, Woodland Warriors laser combat game, and a breathtaking nature trail.
Environmental responsibility is central to the Bluestone ethos and shapes every aspect of it. From the use of natural, sustainable materials wherever possible, to solar-heated water in the lodges, and a unique biomass energy centre which provides carbon-neutral heat for Blue Lagoon and the Adventure Centre.
In 2012 and 2013, Bluestone was accredited with Level Five of the prestigious Welsh Government-backed Green Dragon Award for its environmental work on a day-to-day basis.
Bluestone has won numerous national and regional environmental and sustainable awards, including the coveted Management for Resource Efficiency Premier Award in the Business Commitment to the Environment Awards. It has also been awarded nationally and regionally in the Business in the Community's Awards for Excellence.
In July 2012 Bluestone was awarded the British Venture Capital Association's UK Community and Environmental Award in London.
Bluestone currently employs over 500 people and continues to recruit. The company is committed to recruiting local people to fill its vacancies, as far as possible.
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Floral, Saskatchewan's pride and joy turns 78 today and somehow you get the feeling he'd probably still be able to dish out a mean elbow if he had to. Born on March 31, 1928 Howe began his love of hockey on the frozen ponds of the prairies.
Gordon Howe was a force to be reckoned with in the NHL, holding down the right wing position in Detroit for many of that franchise's glory years.
While his scoring statistics are legendary it was his personna on the ice that defined him as a player.
Long before the term power forward became the word of the day in the NHL, Howe was bulling his way through the opposition with only one destination in mind, the front of the net and the puck inside of it.
In addition to his amazing tenure in the NHL, Howe gave credence to a newly formed league the WHA when he joined the Houston Aeros and then Hartford Whalers, sharing a long held dream to suit up with his sons Mark and Marty.
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The final installment of the top baby name debuts for boys!
10 to 1:
Unnamed, #10
- Unnamed debuted with 101 baby boys in 1989.
No inspiration; possibly related to the great baby name glitch of 1989.
Jahiem, #9
- Jahiem debuted with 155 baby boys in 2001.
Inspired by rapper Jaheim.
Khiry, #8
- Khiry debuted with 159 baby boys in 1989.
Inspired by singer Khiry Abdulsamad, a member of The Boys.
Shyheim, #7
- Shyheim debuted with 168 baby boys in 1994.
Inspired by rapper Shyheim.
Cordero, #6
- Cordero debuted with 173 baby boys in 1986.
Inspired by Cordero Roberts, a character on the soap opera "One Life to Live."
Yurem, #5
- Yurem debuted with 206 baby boys in 2007.
Inspired by Yurem Rojas, winner of the reality TV show "Buscando a Timbiriche, La Nueva Banda."
Kunta, #4
- Kunta debuted with 215 baby boys in 1977.
Inspired by Kunta Kinte, a character on the TV miniseries "Roots."
Levar, #3
- Levar debuted with 523 baby boys in 1977.
Inspired by LeVar Burton, an actor in the TV miniseries "Roots."
Nakia, #2
- Nakia debuted with 611 baby boys in 1974.
Inspired by Nakia Parker, a character on the TV movie/show "Nakia."
Christop, #1
- Christop debuted with 1,082 baby boys in 1989.
Not inspired by anything — just part of the great baby name glitch of 1989.
And there it is! The top boy name debuts ever, so far. Did any of the names this week surprise you?
*The Top 50 Baby Name Debuts for Boys: 50-41, 40-31, 30-21, 20-11, 10-1*


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1/2 cup organic unbleached white flour
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Korean teachers share with WBU students
PLAINVIEW – Wayland Baptist University's Division of Education students got a special treat Wednesday afternoon as a pair of Korean English teachers visited the classrooms and shared about their teaching experiences in Korea.
Vivianna Kim and Sabina Lee of the American Studies Institute for Korean Secondary School Teachers of English Fulbright Program are spending two weeks in Plainview, shadowing teachers at Estacado Junior High and Plainview High School. As part of the Fulbright program, they have already spent a month at the University of Texas. On Wednesday, they visited Dr. Yvonne La Mar's education class and shared the similarities and differences of teaching English in the different cultures.
Lee, who has taught high school for more than 20 years in Korea, said English is a required subject. However, they are not teaching how to speak the language fluently. She said Korean students focus on reading the language. Kim said one reason they wanted to take part in the program was to learn to speak English more fluently.
The two said there are many similarities in the way the schools function, but there are some noticeable differences. Kim said that while teachers here have classes of approximately 20 students, her classes in Korea currently have about 36. Her school also has home room periods at the beginning and end of each school day where the teachers check attendance. She said they have to do it at the end of the day because, "some of them run away during classes."
Academics are stressed heavily in Korea. Students are able to attend school all day long and many hire private tutors or go to private schools to take classes late at night. The teachers said academics are very competitive in Korea. The unemployment rate is low, so in order to get a better job, students must go to the best schools and best colleges. The only way to qualify for the best schools is to do well on the college entrance exams. They said Korean students are passionate about studying.
While teachers are generally highly respected in Korean society, they still have some of the same problems teachers in the states face – discipline. Teachers in Korea are expected to handle the discipline themselves, but there are times that parents feel their children can do no wrong. But there are ways to get their point across. Lee said making students do 100 push-ups during class typically curbs a students' desire to use profanity.
While the education is similar, the teachers have been particularly impressed by one aspect of American culture – food!
"Housewives here must be very happy to have good husbands and good restaurants," Kim, who was celebrating her 19th wedding anniversary on Wednesday, said explaining that in Korea, the wife is expected not only to work, but to prepare all the meals for the family as well. Going out to eat or having the husband fix a meal is unheard of, although Lee admitted that her husband does help out by fixing rice and other food on occasion.
"This must be heaven for housewives," Kim said.
The teachers will spend another week in Plainview.


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Rihanna's Wild Partying: Heartbroken Over Chris Brown
Rihanna has reportedly been drinking almost every single day and out until 4am to numb the pain over losing Chris Brown to Karrueche Tran! Read on to find out more!
Rihanna's friends are reportedly very worried that her partying has gotten "out of control." According to Star, Rihanna reportedly freaked out when Chris Brown got a tattoo of his girlfriend Karrueche Tran's face on his arm — and you'll never believe what that caused her to do!
"When Chris got the tattoo," the source says. "Rihanna freaked out. She's been obsessed with the thought that he's going to marry Karrueche and she'll never be able to get back with him. She's heartbroken and in a bad place."
Isn't that just so sad? A source goes on to say that Rihanna gets tired of just sitting in her hotel room so she goes out and parties late and drinks by herself.
"When people tell her she's a role model, she goes crazy," the source says. "She doesn't want to hear it. If anything, she rebels and goes out and does something even more shocking than the time before."
The source says that Rihanna posted the photo of herself with a white substance at Coachella, and pretended to be in a lesbian relationship just to rebel.
"Rihanna loves being a bad girl and shocking people," the source adds. "She says she's having fun, but it's clear she's acting out because she's in a lot of emotional pain."
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