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Blogworld 2009: Human Business and a Guinness World Record
October 25, 2009 Leave a comment
Social Media has definitely grown out of its infancy. Although, according to all the geeks that attended the first integrated edition of Blogworld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas. More than 2500 bloggers, podcasters, consultants and other new media mavericks visited Sin City for 3 days to talk about and share experiences on Social Media. Close to 300 speakers gave dozens presentations and panel discussions on a large variety of subjects. Without going into detail of all of them, I will give you the highlights of the conference.
If there was one subject that was mentioned in almost every discussion then it was Twitter. With great passion Twitt-lebrities like Laura Fitton (@Pistachio), Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) and Aaron Strout (@aaronstrout) shared the power of Twitter. "The power of unisolating people", according to Laura. "And it's not about the writer, it's not about the number of followers you have but it is about the message you share. People are made to socialize, also in business. For that it is important to surround yourself with inspiring people. Twitter is a great tool for that."
Guiness World Record
Thanks to Twitter a Guinness World Record was set during Blogworld. The highest number of social network mentions within 24 hours. And last Monday the record was confirmed by Guinness World Record: a total of 209,771 social network mentions of #beatcancer in one day via Twitter, Facebook and blog posts. As a result eBay/Paypal and MillerCoors offered a donation of $70.000 to four non-profit cancer organizations (Spirit Jump, Bright Pink, Alex's Lemonade, and Stand UP to Cancer). As the campaign continues, you can still donate and help promote this initiative via Beatcancereverywhere.com.
More good causes-support from eBay/Paypal. Their booth was completely dedicated to this theme. One of the good causes was Shoe4Africa, a non-profit organization aiming at 'empowerment through sports and education, creating unique health initiatives, and promoting AIDS awareness.' Cornerstone project is the development of a children's hospital in Kenya, which will be the first public hospital in Kenya and the largest children's hospital in Africa. The project is supported by Anthony Edwards, who sat in the keynote Celebrity panel. Although not yet very active in Social Media, Edwards understands the difference he can make as a celebrity using Social Media to spread the word around this project. So at Blogworld, he lost his Twitterginity and made his first tweet. Follow him on @anthonyedwards4. We also had a short interview with him which will be published shortly.
Dutch presence
And of course we ran into Vincent Everts, a webexpert and trend-watcher. Vincent presence at Blogworld was to promote yubby.com, a video aggregator the collect videos from over 30 popular video sources. Previously known as Dik.nl, but you can imagine, not a name that would work well in the US (although, flickr didn't change its name for Holland…) And of course, Vincent not only did his upmost for yubby, he also worked on his own brand. Being very present at various sessions and as member in one of the panels, the success of his quest was confirmed to be successful during the closing keynote. When one-time talk-show host Guy Kawasaki asked the audience who has not heard of Jenny the Blogess, Vincent raised his hand as one of the few. Guy looked at him and said 'oh, that's that guy in the white suit'. An interview with Vincent will be launched shortly.
Chris Brogan
If there is one Social Media guru that is reaching superstar status without losing it, it's Chris Brogan. I think he is the most mentioned, quoted, RTweeted and appreciated speaker of Blogworld 2009. And true, Chris is a very sympathetic and respectable person, but moreover, he is a visionary and true knowledge expert in the field. His keynote on day one was for me the most inspiring of all sessions. 'Stop tapping each other on the back, but get out there and start working. There is so much to do out there'. And he is right. Social Media has grown out of its infancy. As much as we liked the pioneering atmosphere at New media Expo 2007, those days seem to be over. Social Media is becoming true business. Moreover, we shouldn't call it Social Media anymore. It's Human Business.
For more details go to Chris' blogpost on his keynote. Here you can find the entire keynote (and all other keynotes).
Trend for 2010
On the exhibition floor, there were several companies that demonstrated applications based on aggregation of content. We already mentioned yubby.com as a video aggregation site, but aggregation goes beyond video. Zemanta is an application that helps you look for content related to the blogpost you are writing. While you're writing, it 'looks over your shoulder [..] and gives you tips and advice'. It analyzes your content, suggests keywords and related articles. With Zemanta, your blog becomes more visible and generates more traffic.
Regator goes even further in aggregation. There is an enormous amount of content available within the blogosphere. Regator 'gathers the world's best blog posts and organizes them in a way that' makes it easy to find the things you need'. This selection is not purely done through some fancy algorithm, but through a team of editors. Yes, real people that search the web for valuable content. In fact, they decide for you what's valuable or not. Regator uses criteria like regular updates, topical, well written, originality and whether or not your blog is 'awesome' based on which you can be added to the selection. The last criterium is rather vague and subjective, but that's admitted by Regator.
Content is still king in new media. But finding the right content becomes like a monk's job. For that we need aggregation, and we predict aggregation becomes the trend for 2010.
Audio Bummer
Was it all highs in Vegas? No, there was definitely a bummer. As there were more than 5-6 simultaneous tracks, you had to make up your mind what session to attend. Obviously, that was challenging as interesting presentations were scheduled at the same time. At New Media Expo in the past all participants were given the opportunity to download the audiotracks of all presentations. For free (or better, at no additional fee). Blogworld changed that policy: audiotracks are now available for $15 per session. Not funny. I can't split myself up in 6, but feel that I have paid close to 1200 bucks to make all these sessions possible. Therefore I plead that all participants should have access to all recorded sessions (at least audio). And I was not the only one complaining about that. Organizer Rick Calvert should make up his mind or consult Tim and Emile Bourquin, former organizers of New Media Expo.
Another disappointment was that there was not much on the use of New Media for internal communication, in our view the way to learn what New Media is, to gain experience and in addition, to improve your internal communication, which in many organizations is underdeveloped. Truly win-win. A separate track should have been developed for this topic. Hopefully the organization considers this for the next edition.
Further, there was a strong focus on blogging, too strong to my liking. New Media is more than just blogging and Twitter. The focus overall was too much on the technology. There was hardly any attention for the development of a New and Social Media strategy. If we really want to go out there and help companies adapt New and Social Media, we need to understand that this is key to success. From that perspective I didn't really hear anything new in these three days.
Conclusion for Blogworld and New Media Expo 2009: a lot on technology (and then mostly blogging) and too little on strategy. A lot of panels, some good and some which had a tendency towards too much 'incrowd'. Some very inspiring speakers, a good atmosphere and at night awesome parties. Overall, a more than average event. Rick Calvert only has to solve this audio issue and I will certainly consider attending Blogworld and New Media Expo 2010.


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Copper Mountain (CUM.to) 4q14 results: CUM shot its load, financials say we're faced with cold sticky CUM
Copper Mountain (CUM.to) reported its Q4 and year end numbers. Here's a chart:
In 4q14 it was revenues of $53.914m, costs of $52.468m for a gross profit of $1.446m. That's a mighty thin margin to support CUM's welter burden of non-site costs and as a result you see that net loss of $16.245m
And be clear, that 4q14 loss was after selling its copper at an average of $3.00/lb. We're now down to $2.60/lb at market. Ewwwwww....sticky.
The Friday OT: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake waltz, Moscow Philharmonic, Yuri Botnari
Tchaikovsky was insane. There are moments in his music when you hear the sound of true manic insanity and among those is the last two minutes of the Swan Lake waltz. But just as you can't get a good read on a mad person just by watching one of their manic episodes, you can't just skip to the end of this superlative performance of the piece. You need to listen to the beautiful but sane part and descend with Tchaikovsky, then you get a glimpse of his personal hell.
It's a piece of music labelled with pleasant things such as waltzes and swans, but it's also a scary white-knuckle experience that never fails to get my heart racing. It is, quite literally, frighteningly good.
Chart of the day is...
gold/basemetalbyproduct gold/silver ratio.
As noted during the prediction for 2015 that the GSR isn't going under 70X this year, silver isn't "the poor man's gold", it's "the choice that poor people make".
We should be talking about the chances this ratio has of hitting 100X.
UPDATE: Regular mailer and always quippy 'MP' chimes in with...
UPDATE: Regular mailer and always quippy 'MP' chimes in with...
I like your quote of "the choice that poor people make" but can't help but to think that you really should have written "the poor choice that people make"...
Updating on the Newstrike (NES.v) Timmins (TMM.to) (TGD) deal
NES.v now unchanged since entering into its friendly deal "at a premium".
TMM.to now 15% down and sinking fast.
Me Told You So
No, seriously, me did tell you so on Tuesday when stating for the record "A very, very stupid group of mining people. If I were a holder this morning I'd be spitting mad, as it is I can relax and watch the fallout from the sidelines." As well as noting the meagre deal being offered on the NES.v side. It's one thing to argue the pros and cons of making share price upside the central focus of a mining company, it's quite another to treat shareholders and their concerns with absolute disdain. Bruce B falls most definitely into the second category.
UPDATE post bell. I'm sorry, did i say NES.v was unchanged?
The search for blue tourmaline in Brazil (updated)
This video is fabbo, the story of the decades-long hunt for precious gems in Brazil told by the Tucson AZ geologist who's done it and wowsers, his love and passion for the subject is impressive.
It's geologically fascinating, the narration is engaging, the back-story is fun and then the end result is something very beautiful. You like cool exploring stories? Or you like geology? Very pretty shiny things? You only need one of those to qualify, I cannot recommend this video enough.
It's just one of four videos on the subject available here. The others are just as good but for some interwebs reason i can't put up all of them separately, so watch that one above and then click through.
And then, read more about GIA here.
UPDATE: It turns out that the husband and wife team* then take the stones they find and turn them into things like this:
That. Is. Pretty. Their website is here, go check it out.
*who I've never met, either real-life or virtually, so this isn't a sales pitch and i'm not on any sort of commish. This is just me going "wow people, check it out", nothing more nor less
UPDATE: It turns out that the husband and wife team* then take the stones they find and turn them into things like this:
That. Is. Pretty. Their website is here, go check it out.
*who I've never met, either real-life or virtually, so this isn't a sales pitch and i'm not on any sort of commish. This is just me going "wow people, check it out", nothing more nor less
A Flash update...
...has just been sent to subscribers, 9am local time Thursday morning and about 30 minutes before the opening bell. Some general comments on developments for four covered stocks, no change in any reco or call. Yet.
The pleasures of being a foreign mining company in Guerrero, Mexico
Did you think Torex (TXG.to) and its recent travails was an isolated case? Did you buy into that "it was a one-off, it was a single gang, we're on his trail now, there won't be any more trouble" thing?
Here's a translation of this report from Mexico's Reforma.
Mining Company Faces Blackmail in Guerrero
Karina SuárezMexico City, 18 February 2015
Since November 13th last year a syndicate of transport workers has been blockading the entrances to the Campo Morado mine in Guerrero, property of the Belgian mining company Nyrstar.The protesters are demanding the payment of a 15 million Peso (U$1.0m) debt which the company denies owing."We totally reject the additional payments demanded by the leaders of local unions, as we consider them illegitimate and are looking to destabilize the activities of Nyrstar by seriously affecting our reputation."Nystar has made clear its intention to pay transport companies directly, but we refuse to pay additional or unwarranted payments that do not reach the people who directly grant their services", the company said in a written answer [to Reforma].The producer of zinc, copper and gold has operated in Guerrero since 2011, but also has projects in Peru, Honduras, Chile, Canada, The USA and Finland.The company calculates that the protest have caused U$10m in losses and disrupted jobs for 2,500 families in the municipality of Arcelia.Isidoro Ruiz Delgado, leader of the transport syndicates, explained that his union demanded a pay rise of between 20% and 25% for their workers due to rises in fuel costs and machinery parts.According to him, the company has refused the renegotiate its agreement and has suspended all payments to transport workers since October, a decision which led to the blockade in the area that has been adhered to by transport workers, mine workers, machine drivers and municipal staff.Nyrstar had promised to pay its debts accrued but has not done so, he said.
Barrick (ABX) 4q14 results
Put down that copy of War and Peace, set aside Infinite Jest for one evening, settle down in your fave easy chair and get ready for today's loooong read News Release. Right here.
Wednesday music: Madness; Wings of a Dove
Ask Ms Yellen why this came to mind today.
Music starts at 1:10 and yeah, this is the one with the Ford Transit.
Sandstorm (SAND) (SSL.to) uses the subprime loan business model to GRO(W)
Hey, remember those heady days of 2005 to 2008? Lehman Brothers, NINJAs, boxing up crap and labelling it quality? Well, Nolan Watson doesn't. Here's the news release.
Your need-to-know on the thing SAND has just bought, Gold Royalties Corp (GRO.v):
- In February 2013 it was an 80c share price company
- In February 2014 it was an 40c share price company
- Yesterday it was a 10c company
- Nolan's paying 20c a share, bless him.
And that's all you need to know, honestly. That's everything.
Yamana Gold (AUY) (YRI.to): Dripping wet
Here's the link to the NR from Yamana Gold (AUY) (YRI.to) this morning. Here's an extract, below the necessary commentary:
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Feb 18, 2015) - YAMANA GOLD INC. (YRI.TO)(AUY) ("Yamana" or the "Company") today announced it has adopted a Dividend Reinvestment Plan ("DRIP") commencing with the previously announced first quarter 2015 dividend. The introduction of the DRIP responds to feedback from shareholders and provides further support to shareholders by offering an opportunity to increase investment in the Company without additional transaction costs by receiving dividend payments in the form of common shares of the Company.Participation in the DRIP will be optional. Participants in the DRIP may obtain additional common shares of the Company by automatically reinvesting all or any portion of the cash dividends paid on common shares held by the DRIP participant without paying any brokerage commissions, administrative costs or other service charges.
They call it DRIP (we like cute acronyms) and then extol the advantages of getting your divis paid in shares, but do not be fooled by the narrative and do the math: SHARE-BASED DIVIDENDS ARE NOT DIVIDENDS, period. They're an automatic zero-sum game, they cost the company nothing and give shareholders nothing. In other words, another layer of corporate accounting BS.
UPDATE: Dear mailers, in order that I have no need to waste time on irrelevant words today, do the math first. Then if you still feel the need to write in, feel free. Though the likelihood is that if you've done the sums and still think there's a debate to be had, you did your math wrong.
UPDATE: Dear mailers, in order that I have no need to waste time on irrelevant words today, do the math first. Then if you still feel the need to write in, feel free. Though the likelihood is that if you've done the sums and still think there's a debate to be had, you did your math wrong.
If you love a jolly parade...
...then hightail it down to Argentina today (Weds 18th), as later on they're planning on having a big one.
No music though, they say it's going to be in silence.
Nobody does election years like Argentina.
Yanis Varoufakis, the erratic Marxist
This opinion piece by Greece's new FinMin, out today, is essential reading. There's a whiff of a star being born here and though Piketty won't need to stand aside, he should shuffle a bit to make some room for Varoufakis. And right here...
After I returned to Greece in 2000, I threw my lot in with the future prime minister George Papandreou, hoping to help stem the return to power of a resurgent right wing that wanted to push Greece towards xenophobia both domestically and in its foreign policy. As the whole world now knows, Papandreou's party not only failed to stem xenophobia but, in the end, presided over the most virulent neoliberal macroeconomic policies that spearheaded the eurozone's so-called bailouts thus, unwittingly, causing the return of Nazis to the streets of Athens. Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006, and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
Given all this, you may be puzzled to hear me call myself a Marxist. But, in truth, Karl Marx was responsible for framing my perspective of the world we live in, from my childhood to this day. This is not something that I often volunteer to talk about in "polite society" because the very mention of the M-word switches audiences off. But I never deny it either. After a few years of addressing audiences with whom I do not share an ideology, a need has crept up on me to talk about Marx's imprint on my thinking. To explain why, while an unapologetic Marxist, I think it is important to resist him passionately in a variety of ways. To be, in other words, erratic in one's Marxism.
...he gives voice to something you get to hear off-record from many financial academics. This is more than just a chess move in the current negotiations. Go read it all.
Capstone Mining (CS.to) 4q14 results
The title of Capstone Mining (CS.to) 4q14 earnings NR this evening is...
...in which we note those upbeat words. Highlight. Significant. Cash. Generation. Oooh, just bringing on that wet feeling in my underwear. But then comes the sub-header that reads...
"Operating cash flow before changes in working capital of $199.4 million"
...and you just know the narrative's in trouble already, even at this early stage of the News Release spindoctoring, because if the best they can manage is a made up line item it's not going well.
Let us be clear; "operating cash flow before changes in working capital" does not exist. To be utterly and absolutely crystalline in our clarity on this matter, "operating cash flow before changes in working capital" Does. Not. Fucking. Well. Exist. For the same reasons 'adjusted net income' doesn't exist or any of the other unicorn accountancy terms out there these days to mask over crappy financials, for that matter. Give us a break willyaz?
However, things that do exist include gross profits (they come after COGS, royalties and deprec/deplet/amort get backed out), operating profits (post G&A, exploration, stock-based compensation, some impairments etc) and net profits (pay those pesky financial dues, pay those pesky tax bills, get to the bottom line). And here's how CS.to has done on those real metrics recently:
Even on the best looking of those three, gross profits, the number comes in at $104.74 for 2014. So tell me about the $199.4m number you stuck at the top of the NR guys again, it's so innarestin how them there numbers work.
But sadly for CS.to, for you and for I, running machines at a mine isn't everything you need to do to make a profit in mining and the bottom line sadness is that CS lost U$22.39m in 2014. And that shows over at the balance sheet too because...
But sadly for CS.to, for you and for I, running machines at a mine isn't everything you need to do to make a profit in mining and the bottom line sadness is that CS lost U$22.39m in 2014. And that shows over at the balance sheet too because...
...working cap's down by nearly $21m since 4q13. So CS.to loses just over $20m on the year and its working cap drops by just over $20m in a year. Funny how the real numbers come in similar to one another, innit guv? And all this while CS sold its copper at an average of over U$3/lb in 2014, so guess how well it's set to do now that copper's under U$2.60/lb? Yeah, that's my guess too. And the market's, by the looks of things.
So, now you know what CS.to's idea of a successful year looks like. End.
Peru re-shuffles its cabinet
For what seems like the 100th time, Peru's head of State (along with her husband, President Ollanta Humala) has today decided to re-shuffle the ministerial cabinet. We'll get the official who-wins-who-stays-who-loses this evening at the swearing in ceremony, but up to now we know that at least four mid-level importance ministerial posts are changing hands. If you care enough, here's a link to check on the names in the frames.
Banana splits served. The end.
UPDATE: Word now that Mayorga is out as Mining and Energy Minister, to be replaced by Rosa María Ortiz. That's one that we at IKN do care about....a little, anyway. Ortiz is a lawyer and expert in environmental issues.
UPDATE: Word now that Mayorga is out as Mining and Energy Minister, to be replaced by Rosa María Ortiz. That's one that we at IKN do care about....a little, anyway. Ortiz is a lawyer and expert in environmental issues.
Another thing about this Timmins (TGD) (TMM.to) Newstrike (NES.v) deal
Further to the post this morning, which concentrated on Timmins Gold's (TMM.to) (TGD) side of the deal with Newstrike (NES.v), another thing is to wonder just what the NES.v faithful must be thinking right now. I mean, even if we forget about the longer term NES.v chart and where it was a few years ago...
...and concentrate only on the 12 month price action...
...there's scant reward for loyalty. Here we are, the day they've been hoping for arrives, NES gets its yearned-for buyout deal and...up 2c to 98c (at time of post, midday-ish Tuesday). I'd be seriously pissed.
On Greece
Cut through the crap by reading Yves Smith today.
What drives the royalty streaming model
Several unconnected and independent mail exchanges, all with different thoughts and angles, sprang from the SSP/SLW post of yesterday and I'd like to thank those mailers who took the time to write in. After cogitating on the back'n'forth banter, here's a synthesis of several points in one shot.
Name: Nolan Watson.
Company: Sandstorm (SAND).
Current situation: Lipsticking pigs.
Main fear: People start looking closely at the companies where SAND holds its streams.
Ambition: To be Randy Smallwood.
Name: Randy Smallwood.
Company: Silver Wheaton (SLW).
Current situation: Pissed that Franco Nevada is now bigger than SLW.
Main fear: People play word games with his name.
Ambition: To be Pierre Lassonde.
Name: Pierre Lassonde.
Company: Franco Nevada (FNV).
Current situation: Being Pierre Lassonde.
Main fear: Tabarnak! Pierre Lassonde has no fear.
Ambition: To be Pierre Lassonde.
The Tahoe Resources (THO.to) (TAHO) earnings miss
4q14 and YE NR here.
The question: Why were 4q14 earnings soft at TAHO?
The answer:
- When your main metal is silver
- When you do 5.2m oz of the stuff
- When you sell the stuff at substantially less the market average price for the period
- And when your fail is the second time in a row
You miss earnings.
And no, Ferrari Kev, we don't care about your deferred sales because you'll sell those ounces eventually. We care about the crappy deals you've closed.
Kombat Copper and Aberdeen International
THE OLD MINING ADAGE: DO NOT DO BUSINESS IN "THE STANS": Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikstan, BhartiStan.
The joke's not an original one, but it's a good'un all the same. Anyway, today we hear that Aberdeen (AAB.to) took 10m of the recent 26m unit offering sold by Kombat Copper (KBT.v), which works out at 7% of shares out and 14% of F/D. The NR goes on and winds through this'n'that, but there's only one paragraph that really matters:
Kombat is part of the Forbes & Manhattan Group of Companies and pays Forbes & Manhattan Inc. ("Forbes") a monthly services fee relating to various administrative, financial and IT services provided by Forbes. The Company considered the monthly fee in its analysis of the merits of the investment.
And you thought incest was illegal, didn't you?
Timmins Gold (TGD) (TMM.to) to buy Newstrike Capital (NES.v)
The skinny: Instead of agreeing to be bought out at U$2 last year (it was on their table, it was knocked back), the entrenched management at Timmins Gold (TGD) (TMM.to) dilutes its already weak share price even further by purchasing another über-high political risk exploration stage project.
For the record last year I owned some TMM, basically for the high chance of the buyout. I rode it up, then rode it down, then sold at a small loss. My trade was dumb (you can tell because it was a loser) and smartest part of that process was the selling, but in the end I did get some value for my lost money because there are some things more important than mere monetary gain. In this case it was getting a course on how self-centred boards of directors in mining companies can be, how they often care zip zip nada about building share value, how their only concern is empire-building at all costs. In the case of TMM the costs are high indeed.
A very, very stupid group of mining people. If I were a holder this morning I'd be spitting mad, as it is I can relax and watch the fallout from the sidelines.
This morning's NR here, excerpt here:
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Feb 17, 2015) - Timmins Gold Corp. (TMM.TO)(NYSE MKT:TGD) ("Timmins Gold") andNewstrike Capital Inc. (TSX VENTURE:NES)("Newstrike") are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive arrangement agreement (the "Arrangement Agreement") pursuant to which Timmins Gold has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Newstrike by way of a court approved plan of arrangement (the "Arrangement"). continues here
PS: The corporate presentation on the merger is on this link. If it reminds you of the time Elgin bought out Gold-Ore Resources, I won't be at all surprised.
Peru vehicle sales highlight its economic inertia
Another stat out today in Peru was vehicle sales for January 2'15, measured by the Peru Automobile Association (Asociación Automotriz del Perú) by counting new registrations, the normal reliable method. The number was soft so I thought I'd take a look at the underlying stats. And after 15 minutes of datadump and play, here are the charts:
The above figures are for light vehicles, i.e. cars, vans, pick-ups, 4x4s etc. They don't include motorcycles etc at the smaller end, nor trucks/buses etc at the larger end.
Unsurprisingly, the drop in sales growth to flat and then negative coincides with the fall in GDP growth seen in Peru, starting in mid-2013 with little respite. Also unsurprising is how this coincides with the fall in the price of gold.
Peru 2014 GDP growth: 2.35%
And that's a long way down from the confident 5%+ predictions at the beginning of 2014. The dataset was completed this morning with the December 2014 month-on-month number, an anaemic 0.54%. Here's the chart:
This Thing Isn't Like That Thing, silver wheaton (SLW) and sandspring (SSP.v) edition
This thing is from Silver Wheaton (SLW) in November 2013:
VANCOUVER, Nov. 11, 2013 /CNW/ - Silver Wheaton Corp. ("Silver Wheaton" or the "Company") (TSX:SLW) (NYSE:SLW) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an Early Deposit Gold Stream Agreement (the "Early Deposit Agreement") with Sandspring Resources Ltd. ("Sandspring") for the Toroparu project located in the Republic of Guyana, South America."Silver Wheaton continues to push the streaming model forward," said Randy Smallwood, Silver Wheaton's President and Chief Executive Officer. "The Early Deposit Agreement model allows us to get our foot in the door on high-quality, earlier stage projects such as Toroparu for relatively little upfront capital. From Sandspring's perspective, these funds will allow them to complete the bankable feasibility study without subjecting their shareholders to excessive dilution that today's challenging equity markets would deliver. Yet again, Silver Wheaton has developed another innovative, win-win business model. In todays market environment we expect this model to be very attractive to junior exploration and development companies looking for funding."
The Company announces that it has completed all field and design engineering work required for the feasibility study for its Toroparu Gold Project located in the Upper Puruni River Region of western Guyana. However, the Company has elected to defer the additional expenditures required to complete the final stages of the Toroparu Gold Project feasibility study such as value engineering and optimization studies.
And then, insult to injury and all that, SSP goes on to explain how it's going to set up a small scale mining operation on the property in 50/50 partnership with a company set up by insiders who bought in for $500k, undoubtedly money that moved from SLW's treasury to SSP's and thence to director's pockets.
"Pushing the model forward". Yeah I liked that one...pushing it until it drops over a cliff, more like. Randy Smallwood, Sandspring saw you coming a mile away.
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IKN301 has just been sent to subscribers and this from the days when phones were phones, none of that namby-pamby Apple Hi Phone or Sam sung the galaxy song. The Nokia 301 doubled up as a knuckle duster if necessary. Kids t'day, don't know thaborn.
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I don't care what anyone says about Zlatan Ibrahimovic ever again. I don't even care about what I've said about him ever again, good or bad (it's been mostly good). It's all footnotes, because this is brilliant.
Prepare to watch something special, hit play.
Zlatan, hero forever. Pity most of that ink is only temporary, though
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In "No," 34-year-old Guadalajara-born actor and filmmaker Gael Garcia Bernal plays a cocky Santiago, Chile, advertising man who has thrived under the economic policies of the nation's U.S.-backed ruler, Augusto Pinochet. Asked to concoct a TV advertising campaign to bring down Pinochet in the 1988 plebiscite, he's intrigued — not necessarily because he's a stealth radical (though his father, we're told, was sent into political exile to Mexico) but because the "no" vote is deemed by many to be an impossible product to sell to a wary populace.
It's a shrewd, buoyant movie about advertising and psychology, and to the degree (which is considerable) that Bernal anchors "No," it's also about the value of doing very little on screen.
Bernal lets the viewer come to him. Best known for "Y Tu Mama Tambien," "Babel" and "The Motorcycle Diaries," the actor expresses a kind of ebullience even in repose. It's useful for playing the fictional character of Rene Saavedra in "No," whose ex-wife (Antonia Zegers) is a firebrand and a leftist in frequent trouble with the police. Rene is different: a company man, hard to read, but someone you'd want on your side, if you're trying to make a rattled citizenry feel good about the prospect of ousting an iron-fisted patriarch.
We talked last fall in Toronto during the international film festival. "No" had already triumphed at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the Directors' Fortnight sidebar. "These days," Bernal said, "in the Middle East and everywhere, everyone's talking about democracy, the value of it. I think the film will have a good life."
It already has. Though it lost to "Amour," "No" was one of the five nominees in the foreign-language feature category at the Academy Awards. Rene, he said, is a character of no fixed ideology. "One of his traits is that there's a mystery there, an ambivalence. We never really know why he's doing what he's doing. I like that about the film. It pays tribute to the ambiguities and the gray areas of democracy, you know? It's not about having absolute certainty; it's about asking the difficult questions."
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The actor, who divides his time between Mexico and Buenos Aires, Argentina, wonders if American politics, from his perspective, has much to do with everyday life. (Then again, any time spent in Hollywood is time not really spent in America.) "In Latin America politics affects everything," he said. "Even the uses of language are interesting. For example there is this term 'charity work' I hear in America all the time. In our countries, though, it's called 'social responsibility.' Which is very different."
In its close-to-the-ground shooting style and dynamic approach to historical fiction, "No" resembles this year's big Oscar winner, "Argo." "Even though I'm not Chilean I felt like it was my story as well," Bernal said of "No." "It's completely Latin. It's important that we tell stories about the polarization that exists, the crimes of the recent past, the questions we all face as a people. And yet there is a lightness to the film."
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I am a Facebook inhabitant because I can stay in touch with relatives and long lost friends easily. I have noticed a trend of users posting stock pictures, inspirational posters, greeting cards, truisms, homilies and scripture in lieu of intelligent conversation. It pisses me off when I see post after post with nothing but pictures. Is thought that shallow? Or, am I finally becoming an Internet curmudgeon?
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Writing for yourself takes WORK. It also takes time and introspection, and many people either don't have the time or don't want to take it. Worse, introspection opens up the possibility of finding something one may not like about oneself.
Cute or pithy aphorisms in graphic form can put forward a facade of depth of meaning where there may or may not be any. Like labels (black, white, Latino, gay, straight, etc.) they are a form of shorthand which may give expression to a single aspect of a person while generally failing to represent the whole.
Add to that the "instant gratification" culture which is well-established in the US and elsewhere. We want the whole thing and we want it NOW. A snapshot will do, no need to dig at the details; they'll come out later.
As for pictures - hell yes, a picture can say a lot, but are we all Ansel Adams, empowered to capture eloquence in silver nitrate or bits and bytes? I know I am not, and if I use someone else's picture to give expression to an element of my life that I want to share, maybe I owe my audience some additional words to TELL THAT STORY, and make it more personal and sensible in that context.
You can hide behind those pictures, too: reveal what you want and leave the rest behind closed doors. It depends on who you are, how comfortable you are with yourself and how willing you are to be public about your identity.
Lots of variables there, for sure, lots and lots...
Welcome to the curmudgeon club. You might be grouchy but you are intelligent thoughtful grouchy. In most settings I have to hold back. Otherwise people will avoid me.
Stock photos are especially annoying. They are used in my workplace on memos and posters. All those smiling people. I keep thinking, damn, there's a lot of people on Valium. There is cognitive dissonance in seeing people smiling on posters about breast cancer and prostate cancer.
I admit I do like folk aphorisms and salty expressions from the countryside. Reminds me of my origins.
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The Research Library of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is pleased to announce that it was awarded $320,400 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a program administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR) Cataloging Hidden Collections. The AMNH Archive Project will produce in-depth descriptions, called finding aids, for major archival collections relating to Museum expeditions. The project will also result in brief histories of these expeditions and biographies of those who participated in them.
Scientific expeditions and field work are the foundation for resource gathering by natural science museums worldwide. The artifacts and specimens collected by AMNH researchers in the field form the core of American Museum of Natural History's scientific research collections. The Lumholtz Expeditions to Mexico, 1890-98; the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902; the Vernay Hopwood Chindwin Expedition to Burma, 1934-35; the Whitney South Sea, 1921-37; the Archbold New Guinea, 1933-64; and the Central Asiatic Expeditions, 1921-30, are a few of the most prominent.
The notes, sketches, diaries, journals, specimen books, photographs, recorded sound, and moving images, made by scientists, artists and assistants collecting in the field, are held in each of the AMNH science departments and record their observations about the biology, cultural traditions and ecological conditions of the specimens and artifacts in their natural environments. Describing these archival records will enrich the experiences of all who use the AMNH scientific collections for research in the disciplines of systematic biology, ecology, cultural anthropology, and the history of science, as well as those who prepare exhibitions and educational programs for the millions of visitors to the Museum and its websites.
The project will result in the creation of an institutional cyber-infrastructure with an eye toward the long term integration of information about the archival collections and the objects and specimens in the scientific collections in the AMNH, and ultimately, with related collections in other institutions using linked open data. These records will form the structure where digitized images of the collections, whether of a bat skeleton, a field sketch of a bird, a frog call, a film of a ceremony, or a photo of a paleontological dig may someday be accessed virtually. But on a more basic level it requires working in the archives held in the Research Library as well as in each of the Scientific Departments to organize and describe the physical collections. "The core of the project is in the links we will make between the documentary records of the scientists in the field and materials they collected," says Barbara Mathé, Project Director. "It will allow researchers to locate materials that, up until this point, would not have been found to relate to their research."
Libraries, archives, and cultural institutions hold millions of items that have never been adequately described. This represents a staggering volume of items of potentially substantive intellectual value, unknown and inaccessible to scholars. The Council on Library and Information Resources administers a national effort with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to address this problem by awarding grants for supporting innovative, efficient description of large volumes of material of high value to scholars. Since the program began in 2008, eighty-seven grants totaling nearly $20M have been made to a variety of institutions nationwide. This is the second award from CLIR to support the AMNH Archive Project.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 22, 2013) – USA Volleyball opened the first day of the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Open Tryout Friday at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., with what expects to be a projected record 247 athletes participating (some athletes were delayed due to weather). The open tryouts, which continue through Sunday, are used for evaluations for the U.S. Women's National Team, U.S. Women's National A2 Program and U.S. Women's Junior National Team.
Among the 247 tryout participants representing 90 different colleges are 60 outside hitters, 57 middle blockers, 56 liberos, 49 setters and 25 opposites. The 2012 U.S. Women's National Team Open Tryouts attracted a then-record 207 participants.
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On Feb. 23, athletes will participate in a morning session and an afternoon wave starting at 8 a.m. MT and ending at 8 p.m. MT. The tryout concludes on Feb. 24 with tournament play broken up into two sessions from 7:30-9:10 a.m. and 9:20-11 a.m. Each participant will compete in one tournament wave to be determined the night of Feb. 23.
Throughout the tryout process, USA Volleyball will be identifying prospective athletes for the following three different programs: first and foremost the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Program; those not selected to the National Team may also be considered for an invitation to the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Senior A2 Team; and/or U.S. Women's Junior National Volleyball Team program and its various programs.


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I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
The Haunt of the Propmistress.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
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3 comments:
- JD said...
Damn, there having a real free for all aren't they :D
- October 27, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- Chris 'Frog Queen' Davis said...
I could not agree more. But then you all knew that didn't you.
- October 27, 2010 at 1:06 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
But just like in the movies, when you think you have escaped and killed all of them off, one survived and is hiding in your car....
- October 27, 2010 at 5:35 PM
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1. IntroductionScripting languages have always been a foundation of rapid AI development but with the increasing demands of AI, their performance drawbacks are becoming ever more problematic. On the other hand, traditional C++ development approaches generally lead to lengthy compile and link times, which limit the amount of iteration and testing that programmers can undertake. Though development tools are progressing in this area, developers still need to run the build and load content to see the end result, and edit-and-continue style approaches do not work for all codebases or changes.
In this article we demonstrate how the same fast iteration times and error-handling can be achieved using pure C++ through a novel approach, which we call Runtime Compiled C++ (RCC++). RCC++ allows developers to change code while the game is running, and have the code compiled and linked into the game rapidly with state preserved. Programmers can thus get feedback on their changes in seconds rather than minutes or more. The technique has been used in the development of AAA games at Crytek, and gives similar results to Hot Reload as seen in Epic's Unreal Engine 4. The RCC++ code is available as a permissively licensed open source project on GitHub...


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Rob Jones named USRowing 2012 Man of the Year
PRINCETON, N.J. – Paralympic bronze medalist Rob Jones has been named the 2012 USRowing Man of the Year, the organization announced Tuesday.
The award is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to men's rowing or to an outstanding man in rowing. Jones will be honored Dec. 1 at an awards reception held in conjunction with the 2012 USRowing Annual Convention scheduled for Nov. 29-Dec. 2 in Oklahoma City, Okla.
"It is a great privilege for me to be recognized in such a select group of individuals, men who have set their sights on a task knowing the difficulties they would have to endure, and proceeding anyway, with full commitment," Jones said of receiving the award.
"I wouldn't have made it through my task without first, my partner Oksana (Masters), and also our high caliber cadre of coaches, Rob Macdonald, Brad Lewis, Roger Payne, Patrick Johnson, Bob Hurley, Justin and Katie Lednar, and others who helped us along the way such as Kevin Sauer, Karen Lewis, Frank Biller, Virginia Rowing, SORA and the Rivanna Rowing Club.
"Not to mention my close support group of friends, family and all of the people who were rooting for me from Walter Reed. I will do my best throughout my life to live up to this title, and the honor that comes with it. And I will continue to work my hardest to improve this sport and the standing of the United States in the international ranks," he said.
While serving in the U.S. Marines in Afghanistan in July 2010, Jones, 27, of Lovettsville, Va., lost both his legs when he stepped on a landmine during a patrol with his unit. He began rowing during his rehabilitation and this summer won a bronze medal in the London 2012 Paralympic Games in the trunk and arms mixed double sculls, the first medal in the event for USRowing.
"Rob Jones is such a unique story in American rowing that it warrants man of the year," said USRowing Chief Executive Officer Glenn Merry. "An athlete, a Marine and a Paralympian, Rob came to rowing relatively late in the game. His accomplishments on the field of play during the past year, from qualifying the trunk and arms mixed double to winning a bronze at the Paralympics, is remarkable, as is his personal story in how he came to become an adaptive athlete. Congratulations to Rob on his fantastic accomplishments."
USRowing recognizes individuals and organizations for their contributions and achievements in the sport in 14 categories.
Seven of the awards will be presented Nov. 14 at the Golden Oars Dinner including the USRowing Medal of Honor, awarded to Stan Pocock; Male Athlete of the Year, awarded to Glenn Ochal; Female Athlete of the Year, awarded to Oksana Masters; Jack Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded to Kate Godwin; Jack Kelly Award, awarded to Mike Knopp; Anita DeFrantz Award for Advancing Diversity in Rowing, awarded to RowLA; and the Isabel Bohn Award for Achievement in Adaptive Rowing, awarded to Oksana Masters and Rob Jones.
Seven additional USRowing Awards will be presented Saturday, Dec. 1 at the 2012 USRowing Annual Convention in Oklahoma City, Okla., including the John J. Carlin Service Award; Clayton W. Chapman Award; Joan Zandbergen "Mama Z" Award, awarded to Elaine Roden; Julian Wolf Award, awarded to Lloyd McDonald; Man of the Year Award, awarded to Rob Jones; Ernestine Bayer Award (formerly Woman of the Year); and the Club of the Year Award, awarded to Community Rowing, Inc.
Seven Fan's Choice Awards also will be presented at the Golden Oars Awards Dinner. They include the National Team Rower of the Year; Junior Rower of the Year; Masters Rower of the Year, Collegiate Rower of the Year; Junior Coach of the Year; Masters Coach of the Year; and Collegiate Coach of the Year. All seven winners will be announced Oct. 23.


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Simply Charming FUN has arrived!
Here are the rest of the projects in the book~
Here is Charming Stars and a Bonus Star Throw:
Charming Lattice:
I like Charming Stripes! Thanks for the chance.
I like Five and Dime the best! I'm so looking forward to this being released. Great job, as usual.
LOVE IT! My fav. right now is charming lattice. Obviously my love for aster manor has something to do with it. It's amazing. I'll post a link on tues during 'show and tell'. Thanks!
i love that everyone likes something different. i think i want to try out charming stripes next!
Hey Konda! I haven't seen this blog until Ashley gave you a shout out on hers. You are so very talented!! I didn't know you had published books either. Where have I been? I love the lattice pattern but I like the blues and browns of the bonus star throw. *Ü* Missy
p.s. the cupcake quilt was too stinking cute!!!
Wow--so many cute patterns! I like the bonus star throw (and not just because Ashley did it!.
Way to go on another book! YEAH! I love em all but I think I like the Little fish the most....just a very cute idea :) Congrats, you really do such nice work :) erin
I LOVE the charming stripes! The colors are gorgeous, in that pattern.
oh charming stars for sure!! You are amazing Konda!
Charming Lattice is the bomb! I would love to win this book.
You're at it again! Pretty amazing me thinks. Great work and beaUtiful quilts. I like the Lattice. I would love to hear about your publishing experiences.
I'd go for the Charming Stripes!
My favourite is the Five and Dime. It reminds me of the quilts my friend's grandmother used to have at her house. We spent a lot of time at her house when I was younger. :)
I like Charming Stripes, too! (Seems like a popular one!)
Thanks for the giveaway offer!
Wow! I like Charming Stripes most of all - it has a color harmony in it :) thank you for the chance to win!
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Love the five and dime.
my favorite is charming stripes!
Oooo I love the five and dime pattern. I remember when such stores existed. But all the patterns are lovely.
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I think Charming Lattice is my favorite, but I also like charming stripes (I would be most likely to take it on...).
I just posted your contest on my blog:
I think I missed the boat. but that's okay. I posted a link today on my blog. What a week! I have to tell you about it- I missed a HUGE opprtunity from Moda. Ugh, makes me sick thinking about it. Oh well. Maybe next time. I'll call you.
Hope I haven't missed the deadline...
My favorite is Charming Stripes. :)
My favorite is Charming Lattice. They are all such fun patterns!
Hard to pick a favorite, but I really like the five and dime! Great job on your book! Congrats!
I love the Charming Stripes! So, so pretty!
i LOVE Charming Stripes! It looks like a perfect new project for me :)
Such a great talent you have :)
I may have missed the dead line but I wanted to post anyway...I love charm packs so I am always looking for patterns to use them with. Can't wait for this book to come out. My favorite is Charming Lattice..but like you said it may change tomorrow because they are all so pretty.
I love Charming Lattice. Love the way the fabric weaves around the borders. Looks like a great book!
I love the Charming Lattice! It doesn't look like a charm quilt, and I never seen a pattern like that for charms!
This looks like a fun book!
I loved all of the projects, but if I really have to pick just one, for now, I would pick Charming Stars!
I will put a link from my blog to yours for a second chance! Thanks so much!
So many cool things but I love that little Charming Rick Rack! Congrats on the book!
I love the bonus star throw -- such a cutie! Thanks for the give-away.
My favourite has to be the Rick Rack quilt ... with Charming lattice as a close second.
If I had to choose, it would be Charming Stripes, but I love them all. I have two of your other books and would love to have another!
Five and Dime is my fav.
I just blogged and linked to your site ;o)
Love the Charming Stripes - so cute!
I think the charming stars one...because I've always liked twinkling stars.
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So says Politico's Jennifer Haberkorn, but the logic here is similar to that of the immigration-reform vote, only with less real meaning. On immigration reform, the only thing standing in the way of its conclusion is House Republicans, who don't trust Barack Obama to adhere to the law and ensure border security before beginning large-scale normalization of millions of illegal immigrants. The proposed Republican replacement for ObamaCare would be going nowhere anyway:
The prospects of Republicans rallying around a replacement policy and scheduling a vote was already an uphill endeavor — one that few expected to actually happen. After all, the House GOP had been trying to agree to a plan for several years already.
But the loss of the House leader who was most closely allied with the lawmakers seeking a vote is probably an insurmountable obstacle.
The fight over an Obamacare replacement is both ideological and tactical. The House Republicans are split on what policies should be part of any legislative package. And they disagree on whether they are better off going on record in favor of specific proposals before November or sticking to less-specific health reform principles.
Cantor sided with the group wanting a vote on a replacement plan, and he promised fellow Republicans earlier this year that the House would do it. The vote was meant to quell rising concern among rank-and-file members that they were against Obamacare but not for anything else.
"He's the guy who made the commitment," said Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.), and a strong advocate of a House floor vote. "I mean, he's not dead. He'll be there until the end of the year. But I think that it lessens the chances."
The issue in this case isn't that we'd miss an opportunity to replace ObamaCare. Some House Republicans (and probably some running for Senate seats) want a comprehensive alternative on the table so that they can attack ObamaCare and defend against a charge that they have no ideas on how to fix health insurance markets and access to providers, especially on areas where the electorate clearly wants some solutions — like pre-existing conditions, for example. Others worry that a comprehensive proposal will allow Democrats to distract from the utter failure of ObamaCare by going on the attack over the details of the Republican plan, which would have exactly zero chance of being enacted into law as long as Barack Obama remains President anyway.
Cantor's resignation from House GOP leadership means that he won't be able to deliver on the promise for a vote on a comprehensive plan, but … I don't see why the next Majority Leader would be unable to take it up, if the caucus wants it. Kevin McCarthy seems set to follow in Cantor's footsteps for the rest of this session, and if the same pressure comes on McCarthy as did Cantor, it's not clear why this would produce any different result, especially since this is more a strategic issue than a conservative/moderate issue.
In fact, given the response Salena Zito found among Cantor's constituents about their deep dissatisfaction with his performance, amplified confrontation might suit the next Majority Leader better:
Had he campaigned at home and spent Election Day there, instead of with lobbyists at a Capitol Hill fundraiser in Starbucks, the outcome might have been different for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, analysts said on Wednesday as his astonishing primary loss sunk in.
Cantor, R-Va., underestimated the anti-Washington sentiment among voters in his 7th Congressional District, said Bruce Haynes, a Washington-based Republican strategist.
"What this race tells me is that people do not care about seniority as an argument for re-election, or how high up you are in leadership," Haynes said. "They care that who they send to Washington is 'one of us.' " …
White believes the disconnect began with his vote for TARP legislation, the 2008 financial bailout that authorized hundreds of billions of dollars in expenditures. But other issues were more personal for people, she explained: "He didn't hold town halls; he didn't keep appointments."
The lesson, as I conclude in my column at The Fiscal Times today, is that Cantor lost touch with his constituents — and the rising disgust with big institutions, and big institutionalists:
Cantor appears to have lost touch with his constituents and their need for a champion rather than a disconnected politician climbing the ladder in nearby Washington DC. One early warning sign missed by most pundits was an action by activists in Cantor's district to oust one of his allies from the chair of the county Republican Party last month. The district convention signaled deep unhappiness with Cantor on the grass-roots level, and with the party establishment on both the state and federal levels.
That should have alerted Cantor that any idea of a 34-point lead in the district was fanciful and that long-term complaints about his focus might put him in danger. Dumping tons of money into negative-campaign attacks against Brat not only raised his profile, but also aggravated the problem. Cantor would have done better to spend the money on positive advertising and retail politicking, rather than taking his district for granted.
To that point, Brat gave voters a reason to turn out and send a populist message to the state and national party. Immigration may be part of that, but it's not the whole reason, or even the most important part. Brat offered a purpose and a moral perspective on which voters could choose, while Cantor's engagement with the district presented more of a calculation about power and influence.
That argument might have worked in the past as voters put more trust in institutions, but as Ron Fournier argued at National Journal, those days are passing away on both side of the aisle into a more iconoclastic populism that targets the institutions and the power they wield. Cantor's high profile as a House GOP leader, added to his lack of connection to home-district voters within a day's drive from his Washington DC offices, combined to put the former heir apparent out of the succession altogether.
It's not as if Cantor didn't get some signals that he was in danger. The Washington Post highlighted one big red flag in particular:
Last month in Richmond, Eric Cantor stepped to a microphone in a hotel ballroom full of Republican activists from his home district. He was clearly ticked off.
Cantor's wife and two of his kids were there. His mother was there. His mother-in-law was there. And right there in front of them all, a little-known professor from a little college had just called Cantor a bad conservative. The normally cool Cantor was about to strike back — showing a pique he has turned on the president but rarely shows in public.
"When I sit here and I listen to Mr. Brat speak," Cantor started, referring to challenger Dave Brat, "I hear the inaccuracies . . ."
The crowd cut him off. After all of 24 seconds.
Then the man who expected to inherit the House of Representatives was drowned out by a bunch of booing nobodies. …
Instead, a look back at Cantor's defeat shows that it was a real rejection by a broad swath of his district's Republican voters. And there were warning signs that it was coming: the heckling of Cantor in that convention speech and defeats of his acolytes in low-level party elections this year.
But Cantor missed those signs for far too long — focusing on his ambition in the House while his base crumbled beneath him.
That's the story of Cantor's loss (that and the steak dinners). The lesson to be learned from it has little to do with leadership fights, which hardly impressed Cantor's constituents, or even on specific policies. It's about remaining connected to the district and acting in the interests of voters, rather than on institutional interests.


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(rawstory.com) Hip hop magnate Russell Simmons said Thursday on MSNBC that he planned on joining the ongoing "Occupy Wall Street" in lower Manhattan.
Simmons, who has an estimated net-worth of $340 million, noted that all his employees paid more taxes than he did.
"Last time I got involved in a protest I brought a hundred thousand people there, for the Rockefeller Drug Laws," he said. "And if I get involved really heavily in this one, we find the agenda and have a common ground… we can bring hundreds of thousands of people… small seeds are planted, but it could grow into something very big."
Watch video, courtesy of MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44722140#44722140


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A Matter of Ethics
The Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS) is spearheading this
national ethics project in an effort to unite member societies to further
one of our most important common goals: To lend support and encouragement
to promising young adults as they strive to meet their full potential as
future leaders in their respective fields.
Such potential is found not on the surface of a person, where the worthy goals of achievement and knowledge shine brightly for all to see. Instead, a person's full potential can only be reached by building upon the core of one's character, by encouraging honesty, trustworthiness, integrity... ethics.
Because these issues cross all academic lines, you can exercise your creativity to promote the project across professional boundaries. We hope you'll take advantage of this unique opportunity to collaborate with your ACHS honor society peers.
1. Commit to a leadership role in increasing campus and community awareness
of ethical standards.
2. Engage in a dialogue between student groups regarding ethical issues.
3. Promote, encourage, and strengthen commitment to ethical behaviors at all levels of the campus community.
4. Serve as role models of ethical behavior.
5. Pursue the art and practice of making ethical decisions, and provide learning opportunities for ethical leadership among peers.
6. Learn, share, and follow ACHS guidelines for resolving ethical dilemmas.
7. Increase knowledge of and appreciation for professional codes of ethics within your discipline.
1. Sponsor a public forum on Ethics. Use panel format composed of prominent
community leaders (e.g., business, industry, education, clergy, etc.).
2. Develop a Speakers Bureau of community leaders who will serve as guest lecturers for individual classes. Publicize the list and distribute throughout the academic community.
3. Select a film that depicts ethical and/or unethical behavior. Advertise free film, provide childcare, popcorn, etc. Following film, divide attendees into small groups and provide discussion questions about the ethics portrayed in the film. Honor Society members, sponsors, and interested faculty serve as facilitators of groups.
4. Sponsor a campus wide forum on Ethics. Various disciplines inform attendees about their respective professional code of ethics (e.g., nursing, psychology, business).
5. Sponsor a Commitment to Ethics Day/Week on campus. Secure administrative support for all disciplines to devote all or partial class period to discussing ethics. Examples: philosophy class holds debate on ethical choices, psychology classes discuss behavioral aspects of ethical choices, history classes role play key historical figures who showed moral and ethical courage, drama classes select film (e.g., Man for All Seasons, Chariots of Fire) depicting ethical dilemmas, government classes identify examples of ethical and unethical political figures.
6. Develop and provide a directory of web sites addressing ethical issues.
7. Sponsor a panel, forum, or guest speaker emphasizing the ethical conduct of scholarly research.
8. Cooperate and interface with Student Government Organization to sponsor Ethical Awareness Activities. Spearhead the adoption of an honor code for all student organizations on campus.
9. Locate a reformed violator of an ethical conduct who is willing to give testimony. Provide a forum for this individual to perform a community service. Possibly find this individual through a probation program. If not feasible, invite local law enforcement officials, probation officers, lawyers, etc to share their perceptions.
10. Sponsor an Ethics Hotline for campus inquiries.
11. Spearhead effort for all campus organizations to develop and/or post their code of ethics on selected web pages.
12. Develop, distribute, and analyze a questionnaire identifying ethical issues, concerns, and solutions to faculty. Publish results in school newspaper.
13. Identify a local business, professional, individual, industry, etc. that is recognized in the community for outstanding ethical behavior. Present recognition (i.e. certificate) in an awards ceremony, at an induction ceremony, or banquet. Establish as an annual event. Provide newspaper publicity.
14. Purchase inexpensive T-Shirts with catchy phrase touting ethical behaviors. At a predetermined date, all members wear T-Shirts to classes.
15. Sponsor essay contest on Ethics. Recognize winner at awards program, campus newspaper, local newspaper, and professional society newsletter. If funds are available, provide scholarship for winner.
16. Sponsor booth at Freshman Orientation programs that provide guidelines for ethical behavior on the campus and in the classroom.
17. Sponsor a forum during a national convention on ethics and ways to promote ethical conduct.
18. Publish an article on ethics in the national magazine or newsletter.
19. Provide links to web sites of other organizations that promote ethical conduct (see samples for collaboration below)
20. Include resource on ethical conduct and sample programming ideas to promote ethics in chapter fall mailing.
21. Elementary level. Develop a play (e.g., puppets) illustrating ethical behavior. Provide for elementary schools in community.
22. Sponsor poster contest depicting an ethical concern for elementary children.
23. Select several grade appropriate books that illustrate and emphasize ethical behavior for elementary age children. Volunteer as readers in the classrooms and/or school library.
24. Sponsor poster contest depicting an ethical concern for elementary school children. Follow up with certificates, plaque, newspaper recognition, etc.
25. Middle school. Develop an Is It Cheating? checklist. Make liberal use of case studies to illustrate both ethical and unethical behaviors. Distribute to teachers or volunteer to lead a class discussion.
26. High school. Invite members of high school honor societies to roundtable discussion on ethical vs. unethical behaviors. Topics could include plagiarism, ethical vs. unethical use of the internet as a resource, etc.
Ethics Resources
Broken link:
Project Recordings - Arthur Dobrin, Hofstra University
If you are interested in some ethical dilemmas for discussion, access these recordings. Professor Dobrin would be pleased to have contributions. Contact: [[email protected]]
Resources from Public Information Committee Report 2007 -- Permission has been given for adaptation.
- A Matter of Ethics: How to Incorporate Ethics into the Mortar Board Chapter, and Beyond!
- With Honor and Integrity: Alpha Chi and Academic Honesty
- Script for above PowerPoint
- Chapter Activities that Promote Ethical & Socially Responsible Leaders - Susan Whitbourne, Psi Chi
Center for Academic Integrity : www.academicintegrity.org
Integrity Matters - May 2005
Integrity Matters - September 2005
Institute for College Values: www.collegevalues.org
Journal of College and Character
The Institute for Business, Technology, and Ethics: www.ethix.org
The Institute for Global Ethics: www.globalethics.org
Dr. Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy - 2005 book, Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good (Emmis Books)
National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good
Gripe and Glee Activity - www.kon.org/ethics_gripe-and-glee.html
Ethical Dilemmas Activity - www.kon.org/ethical_dilemmas.html
Ethics: 101 Activity - www.kon.org/leadership/ethics_101.html
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science: www.onlineethics.org
Ethics Resource Center: www.ethics.org
What We Talk About When We Talk About Ethics: http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2012/talking-about-ethics/
Creating a Code of Ethics - www.ethicsweb.ca/codes
Intersection of Ethics and the Law - www.legalethics.com
Business Ethics - www.business-ethics.com
A Guide to Ethical Principles in Business - online.rutgers.edu/master-business-admin/a-guide-to-ethical-principles-in-business
United States Office of Government Ethics -
Maurice Young Center for Applied Ethics - www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources
"What is Below the Water Line" by Robert Knowles
"Honor Above All" Anti-Cheating Resources -
The Josephson Institute has assembled a comprehensive suite of materials to help encourage academic integrity in young people, and now you can purchase them over a secure online connection at www.charactercounts.org. The centerpiece of a new campaign called "Honor Above All," the new anti-cheating resources include:
- An insightful manual that provides practical techniques and ready-to-implement
procedures to change the attitudes and behavior of youth
A value kit for the classroom, with student wallet cards, a poster, PowerPoint presentations and more
A value kit for the school for a campus-wide campaign
Long-lasting vinyl banners that bring powerful messages about honor to the school community
To order or get more information, visit charactercounts.org or call (800) 711-2670.
- Council of Writing Program Administrators - "Defining and
Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices" -
- http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
- http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/21/plagerism.detective/index.html
- http://library.msstate.edu/li/tutorial/plagiarism/index.asp
Each honor society could develop its own emphasis on this topic. For
Sigma Tau Delta - English - plagiarism
Kappa Delta Pi - Education - citizenship
Business honor societies - ethical conduct in business relations
Member societies and other university groups will be given recognition on this Web site. A supplement to the Annual Report will include a description of the program to publicize this ACHS National Project and the participation of members.
Sigma Pi Sigma Ethics Initiative
In October 2004, the physics honor society Sigma Pi Sigma met to initiate the celebration of 2005 as the World Year of Physics, as declared by the major physics societies, the UN and both houses of the US Congress.
This kick-off event was a conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in conjunction with several other physics societies. Though many different presentations were given, one of the main themes for the conference was Ethics in Physics. Over the course of the conference, talks were given and workshops and discussions were facilitated covering topics such as Ethics in Physics and the Military, Ethics in Academia, and Ethics in Publication. The presenters were careful not to promote personal ethical views, but rather how to determine one's own ethical views and how to determine if the views of the person and organization fit well together.
The talks and discussions were very informative and raised some issues that may not have been immediately apparent. These in-depth examinations of both personal and organizational ethical stances will make the choices that the conference attendees have to make in the future much easier and better informed.
Some follow-up activities from the Congress include a set of 10 Ethics Recommendations that were approved by the voting delegates at the Congress , as well as the establishment of committee to implement these recommendations as feasible, and an initial group of on-line ethics resources to be expanded.
Ethics Recommendations from the 2004 Sigma Pi Sigma Congress
1) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should issue a resolution stating that ethics education be integrated into the physics program. (70 yes, 15 no)
2) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should create/disseminate a set of ethics resources including curricula, case studies, and speaker lists. (77 yes, 7 no)
3) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should expand its efforts to involve alumni and industry in its initiatives to promote career diversity. (47yes, 34 no)
4) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should assign a committee to investigate existing professional society and publisher statements and guidelines regarding ethics, with an eye to endorsing these or modifying them for our use. (68 yes, 14 no)
5) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS publications should have ethics-based guidelines, including those that recognize students' roles in publications. (72 yes, 7 no)
6) As an honor society, Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should have a disciplinary procedure for those who violate the standards of the society. (60 yes, 20 no)
7) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should issue a statement on the importance of achieving diversity in physics. (67 yes, 11 no)
8) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should expand its general portfolio of programs and resources to include those targeted at groups under-represented in physics. (73 yes, 8 no)
9) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should issue a statement recommending that the tenure and post-tenure review process consider more strongly the tenure candidate's impact on student development. (50 yes, 25 no)
10) Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS should issue a request to chapters that chapters educate and inform students about the tenure process that physics faculty undergo. (57 yes, 22 no)
Lambda Pi Eta
Simply Speaking featured an ethics article by the 2004-2005 National President Jean Marie Lutkenhouse. The National President and the National Office created an ethics activity guide for chapters to implement on their campuses. The guide will be presented at the 2005 NCA convention in November.
Phi Kappa Phi
The Spring 2003 Phi Kappa Phi Forum dealt with Professional Ethics.
Fall 2004 Phi Kappa Phi Forum - Where is the Honor? and Philosophical Limits: A Question of Ethics* - reprinted by permission of Phi Kappa Phi
Delta Mu Delta
The Delta Mu Delta Vision (Winter 2003) featured articles on Promoting Integrity in Business Decision-Making.
Sigma Beta Delta
The Sigma Beta Delta Aspirations (Fall 2002) featured an article, Questions of Ethics.
Alpha Chi
Alpha Chi's journal the Recorder (Vol. 46, No. 3) has two articles on ethics. One, detailing a campus conflict that made its way into the national press, including the Chronicle of Higher Ed, has a neat angle on how honor society students were instrumental in the resignation of a college president who had altered a student athlete's grade.
Alpha Chi has launched a two-year project to promote academic integrity on its member campuses. Alpha Chi posted information and ideas generated at its most recent national convention at www.harding.edu/alphachi/AcademicIntegrity.html (see links for speech by Dennis Organ, including a PowerPoint presentation).
Tau Beta Pi
Tau Beta Pi - Editorial (pdf)
Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake, NY
A Civility Steering Group was formed on campus during Fall 2004. The first project was the development of a Student Code of Civility. Consideration is being given to creating a contract that new students will sign in the beginning of their first semester.---Rose Hanofee.
Potomac State College, Keyser, WV
Character Counts materials (www.charactercounts.org) are being used in the Academic Success Center.---Molly Alvaro-Smith.
Mortar Board
The national society has committed chapters to developing collaborative efforts on campus. Other honor societies are encouraged to participate.
Pi Sigma Alpha
Chapters are encouraged to participate in campus-wide honor society activities around the topic of ethics.
Kappa Omicron Nu
Chapters have been encouraged to use the ethics project as a choice in the "required program" initiative. The 2005 Conclave featured program planning for chapter activities that feature "A Matter of Ethics."
A Matter of Ethics Resolution
Ethics Powerpoint
Kappa Omicron Nu
Activities featuring "A Matter of Ethics" are available for student or professional use:
Gripe and Glee Activity - www.kon.org/ethics_gripe-and-glee.html
Ethical Dilemmas Activity - www.kon.org/ethical_dilemmas.html
Ethics: 101 Activity - www.kon.org/leadership/ethics_101.html
Preprofessional/Graduate Student Section of the American Association
of Family & Consumer Sciences
A session at the national meeting in June, 2005 will feature planning for ethics programming on campus in connection with Kappa Omicron Nu and Phi Upsilon Omicron.
A Matter of Ethics - Brochure (pdf)
A Matter of Ethics - Poster (pdf)


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Atlanta: Ann's Snack Bar
Following his review of Krug's Tavern in Newark, New Jersey, Tommy Salami (tommysalami on AHT/Serious Eats) brings us another burger rec, this time from Ann's Snack Bar in Atlanta, Georgia. Thanks for sharing the burger love, Tommy! Read more from Tommy at his blog Pluck You, Too! or on Twitter @tommysalami. For anyone else who wants to share some burger intel, here's how to do it. —The Mgmt.
Ann's Snack Bar
1615 Memorial Drive Southeast, Atlanta GA 30317 (map); 404-687-9207
Cooking Method: Griddled
Short Order: Enormous slow-griddled burgers the size of the plate, and tasty too!
Want Fries With That?: Crinkle cut, but you won't have room
Prices: Burger, $3.75; Ghetto Burger, $7.50
Ann's Snack Bar became known outside the Atlanta area when the Wall Street Journal dubbed her Ghetto Burger "the best burger in America." That's big talk in a town where the Vortex serves the infamous burger made with two grilled cheese sandwiches as buns, but Miss Ann is up to the challenge. Just bring a huge appetite, because you'll be eating a pound of ground beef, plus bacon, chili, and cheese on a super-sized sesame seed bun.
What sets Miss Ann's Snack Bar apart is its old-fashioned road food demeanor. A simple diner car on the side of the road, it's best viewed as if you're visiting someone's home for dinner. Don't park illegally, don't talk on your phone, don't lean on the counter and for heaven's sake, don't cuss, or you're out! However, Miss Ann is no Soup Nazi. I asked for permission to take photos and she gladly permitted it. Warnings aside, let me get to the burger.
Their double bacon chili cheeseburger dubbed the Ghetto Burger starts with a pound of fresh ground beef, never frozen. The beef isn't ground to order, but after it's smashed on the griddle in two heavily seasoned patties, it transcends its simple roots. Ann's seasoning is unlabeled and perhaps homemade; it tastes of Lawry's with a hint of cayenne, maybe a dash of cumin. They fry the bacon in the deep fryer so it crisps up well. The chili is sweet and smoky, the cheese American. Lettuce, tomato, ketchup, and mayo are optional. It takes over ten minutes for this to cook the burger slowly on the griddle so it doesn't dry out.
You can ask politely for rare if you'd like, but I opted to let them make it standard, and I wasn't disappointed with the resulting juiciness. The only way to attack it is with knife and fork, cutting it in half so it will fit in your hands without spilling into the plate, which it fills. The seasoning helps with the crust on the outside, but the strong beefy flavor mellows it out so the spices don't overwhelm it at all. How the bun manages to stay together, I don't know. This is a burger epic in size and classic in flavor, a burger like your mom might make—if you were a lumberjack. They serve different variations from Plain Jane to a coleslaw-topped burger reminiscent of a Memphis-style BBQ sandwich. You can also get their fries topped with chili and/or cheese.
Although I've had better burgers—made with ground to order sirloin or brisket—there's something about a big griddled burger done right that's always touched a certain nostalgia in me. Ann's Snack Bar makes that kind of classic roadstand monster burger that's been unchanged for decades and doesn't need updating. Best burger in America? That's subjective. But I can call Miss Ann's Ghetto Burger the paragon of the American roadstand burger, the epitome of burgerdom, by which we can explain the phenomenon to those unfortunately uninitiated. —tommysalami
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Lolo Jones fires back at her critics and gets emotional when discussing what she feels was harsh criticism from a recent New York Times story.
After Lolo Jones tearfully claimed on TODAY Wednesday that she was "ripped to shreds" in a recent New York Times piece, the Times' public editor called the story "too harsh'' in an article on Thursday.
Public editor Arthur S. Brisbane, who is the "readers' representative" at the Times, wrote on Thursday that "in this particular case, I think the writer was particularly harsh, even unnecessarily so.'' The piece on Aug. 3 by staff writer Jere Longman, "For Lolo Jones at the Olympics, Everything is Image,'' argued that Jones is more sex appeal and media hype than substance.
In the story, Longman quotes the director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies comparing Jones to former tennis professional Anna Kournikova, who was known more for her good looks than anything she did on the court.
"This piece struck me as quite harsh and left me, along with others, wondering why the tone was so strong,'' Brisbane wrote.
After finishing a disappointing fourth in the 100-meter hurdles on Tuesday, Jones addressed the Times story on TODAY Wednesday.
"I think it was crazy just because it was two days before I competed, and then the fact that it was from a U.S. media,'' Jones told Savannah Guthrie before fighting back tears. "They should be supporting our U.S. Olympic athletes and instead they just ripped me to shreds. I just thought that that was crazy because I worked six days a week, every day, for four years for a 12-second race and the fact that they just tore me apart, which is heartbreaking.
"They didn't even do their research, calling me the Anna Kournikova of track. I have the American record. I am the American record holder indoors, I have two world indoor titles. Just because I don't boast about these things, I don't think I should be ripped apart by media. I laid it out there, fought hard for my country and it's just a shame that I have to deal with so much backlash when I'm already so brokenhearted as it is."
Since the article appeared in the "In the Rings'' section of the Times' Olympic coverage, it was intended as an opinion piece and not a straight news story, according to Brisbane.
"One person's harsh is another person's tough minded,'' the Times' sports editor told Brisbane. "(Longman), while acknowledging Jones's accomplishment and qualities of perseverance and candor, thinks this female athlete fell short.''
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Die Walt Disney Company kauft Lucasfilm für 4,05 Milliarden Dollar.
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Continuing its strategy of delivering exceptional creative content to audiences around the world, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. in a stock and cash transaction. Lucasfilm is 100% owned by Lucasfilm Chairman and Founder, George Lucas.
Under the terms of the agreement and based on the closing price of Disney stock on October 26, 2012, the transaction value is $4.05 billion, with Disney paying approximately half of the consideration in cash and issuing approximately 40 million shares at closing. The final consideration will be subject to customary post-closing balance sheet adjustments.
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The latest edition of Nature magazine details a new method scientists have derived for converting heat energy into electricity, using silicon to instigate the conversion. Researchers have more investigations to carry out, but if preliminary findings are indicative of what is to come, appliances that charge using your own body heat may be on the horizon.
Using "rough" silicon wires, produced by a process known as "electroless etching," where silicon nano-wires are synthesized in an aqueous solution, over a thin, semiconductor crystallized base, the scientists have been able to exploit the process of galvanic displacement of silicon. This displacement technique, which uses silver ions, causes the thermoelectric efficiency to be increased on the rough surfaces of the nano-wires.
The breakthrough comes from the boffins at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, who believe they have found a way to increase the conversion efficiency by a factor of 100. Though they are unable to pin the exact physics of why this works, what they can be certain of is that it definitely does work.
The potential uses for such a technology are mind blowing; from power-jackets that recharge gadgets kept in their pockets to vehicles that utilizes your farts for headlight juice, and pretty much everything else in between. It will be a long while before anything like this makes it to the consumer market, but the development is an exciting one. Expect my son to blog about future developments concerning these nano-wires in 2016. [Tom's Hardware]


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MWC 15 Special
Google has just released an updated Google Maps Mobile client for Android which focuses on an even easier way to find places around you current location: a dedicated Places icon that lets you quickly look up nearby places and pick a place to go using updated Place Pages. On Android-powered phones with Google Maps 4.4, you'll find the new Places icon in the app launcher with the rest of your apps. At the moment it features restaurants, coffee, bars, hotels, attractions, ATMs and gas stations as predefined categories. However it even allows to add own categories as well as directly searching for any other type of local business around you.
. You'll get a detailed list of all the nearest places and can choose one to learn more about it on its Place Page.
With updated Place Pages, and in addition to previously introduced photos and reviews, Place Pages now have a bunch of new details, such as prices, parking and menu links. Furthermore the search results list now highlights business opening hours in addition to compass direction and distance.
Google Maps for mobile 4.4 is available now for Android 1.6 and above.
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