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Why is Gold Draining out of COMEX Warehouses?
Gold conspiracy theorists have a new bogeyman. Inventories of gold bars held in the COMEX warehouses are falling. This fact is offered to support the stale allegations of "fractional gold" and "manipulation". They have been predicting a "signal failure" that is coming any day now, like the Great Pumpkin in the Charlie Brown Halloween special. If not that, then surely at least the price of gold is going "to da moon". Any day now, we have been repeatedly told, every day and every dollar down from the peak around $1900.
The price will rise again, as the centrally planned paper currencies continue their inexorable slide towards the oblivion of bankruptcy. The dollar, like all irredeemable paper currencies before it, will become worthless one day. That does not mean that there cannot be significant volatility in the meantime.
As I discuss in this article, the COMEX inventories are not the best place to look for changes in the scarcity of gold. One should look at the gold basis.
As this chart shows (all graphs are courtesy of Sharelynx), the eligible inventory of gold bars in COMEX-approved warehouses has been falling this year, and is now at a four-year low. An eligible bar is a bar that was manufactured by an approved refiner, has a documented chain of custody, and is in a COMEX licensed depository.
Eligible inventory has been in decline since 2011, and has dropped sharply this year. This is bad enough, but what has really got some tinfoil knickers in a twist is the drawdown of registered inventory. A registered bar is an eligible bar for which a registration has been made. Registered inventory is down to a 2-year low, though if it falls much farther, then it will be at a 10-year low.
Some contend that registered gold means the metal is owned by a dealer, and eligible means a client. I don't find that explanation satisfactory, any more than to call the bid "wholesale" and the offer "retail". At best it is oversimplifying, and usually misleading too.
The distinction is not based on who owns a bar of gold, but whether a warehouse receipt number has been assigned. Eligible gold can be owned by anyone, but it cannot be delivered against a futures contract. Once it has been registered, then it can.
The difference between eligible and registered is the filing of paperwork. This may reflect the possible intent of the owner to deliver the gold against a future he has shorted. But that is a tenuous and ambiguous distinction, and I do not consider it to be meaningful in analyzing the gold price.
Before we go on and look at what really drives COMEX inventories, here is a graph of both registered and eligible stocks in silver. If the falling gold inventory is a bullish signal to some analysts, then by the same logic they should write that the rising silver inventory is bearish.
This is a false logic. Since January, I have been calling for silver to underperform gold, and likely fall against the dollar as well. It has indeed fallen from 52oz of silver per ounce of gold to 63.9oz (on Friday, June 7), and from around $32 to $21.66 per oz of silver. My call has not been based on COMEX inventories in either metal.
In What is the Meaning of GLD Outflows?, I explained the falling inventory levels at the Exchange Traded Fund through the theory of arbitrage. In short, gold (and every good) flows to where the price is highest. If it is possible to buy something at a lower price in one place, and sell it at a higher price elsewhere, then someone will do it. The same applies to the gold in GLD. It was possible to buy and redeem shares of the ETF at a lower price per ounce than the metal was worth in the market, so someone did it. In GLD, only Authorized Participants can perform this arbitrage. COMEX is open to anyone (though the practical consideration of transaction costs will preclude retail traders).
What arbitrage could be occurring in COMEX? As with my analysis of GLD, I make no claims to special knowledge. I do not know who is doing what. I have heard no whispers from big traders in London, and have no inside information from the regulators or banks. I don't talk to large aquatic mammals. I am only doing some basic detective work.
Before we proceed, I want to underscore an important point. I think one has to be extremely careful trying to predict the next price move by looking at gold moving from one corner of the market to another. Such analysis is usually based on a presumption of which money is "smart" and which is "dumb". Central banks are buying gold? The Indians are buying and Chinese are buying. This must be the smart money, and the anonymous sellers are dumb. Perhaps.
Total stocks of gold (and silver) are extraordinarily high compared to annual mine production. Gold (and silver) are hoarded worldwide, and have been for thousands of years. This monetary reservation demand is what sets the floor under the price, while speculators come and go, temporarily driving prices up and down.
Below, is a six-month chart of the COMEX stocks (registered + eligible) and overlaid with a trace of the (December 2013) gold basis. I have skewed the basis by about two weeks to the right. This is because the basis leads the changes in inventory. The reason is that it takes time to ship bars of gold.
We see there is a reasonable correlation through mid-May, especially if we filter out the one-day spike low (on April 15). Why should COMEX stocks have any correlation to the gold basis? What arbitrage could occur based on the gold basis?
Recall that the basis is the price of gold in the futures market minus the price in the spot market. The basis is the profit one can make by carrying gold, which is buying gold and simultaneously selling a future. One is long a gold bar and short a gold future which neatly offsets it. This trade should require very little margin, and hence allow a lot of leverage. And it would need a lot of leverage, as the basis began this period around 0.6% annualized and is currently below 0.2%. This return does include the bid-ask spread, but does not include exchange fees, storage and insurance, commissions, etc.
Two things are certain. First, the gold carry trade is much less attractive at 0.2% than it was at 0.6% (given the costs, it may not be profitable at all). Second, as the basis falls, fewer and fewer traders will put on a carry position and, below their marginal rate of profit, none will put on a new carry. They may even take their carry position off, if the market offers a profit to do so (called backwardation). The December 2013 contract is not yet backwardated, but February and April went into backwardation before they expired. June and August are currently backwardated.
What happens when someone carries gold? A synonym for carrying is warehousing. In many cases, the metal will remain in the COMEX warehouse especially for short duration carries (probably in the registered category).
What happens when the gold is decarried? Decarrying is when the trader simultaneously sells the metal and buys back the future. The cobasis is the price of gold in the spot market minus the price in the futures market. This is the profit that one could make by decarrying the metal. A decarry trade will close a prior carry trade, or it can be used to make a small spread by anyone who owns gold outright. When you decarry, your buyer can move it out or do anything else with it. The one thing we can be sure of is that he won't carry it himself. If decarrying is a good opportunity, then carrying is not.
As a segue to discussion of one final point, let's look at a graph of the (December 2013) cobasis overlaid on the gold lease rate.
I did not skew the cobasis to the right because unlike with shipping of metal bars, there is little lag to trade a spread. From the start of the graph through around February, there does not appear to be much correlation. During this time, the cobasis was not moving much (and it was quite negative). As it rises, it drives the decarry trade, which becomes more and more attractive. This is especially true for the April, June, and then August futures (the graph shows December). Nearer months generally have a higher cobasis than farther, and one by one the cobasis of each contract rises above zero as the contract nears expiry.
In the right part of the graph, the correlation is astonishing. What would cause the cobasis to correlate with the lease rate? Or, to put it another way, why would a rising cobasis cause a rising lease rate?
The answer is that one need not own the gold in order to profit from decarrying it. One could lease the metal. Consider this trade (all steps are simultaneous):
- Lease gold
- Sell gold in the spot market
- Buy a future
- Park the cash in a bond to earn a yield in the meantime
Since one sells gold metal and buys a gold future, one has no exposure to the gold price. This is purely a way to profit from the spread. This trade tends to become attractive when cobasis > gold lease rate + costs.
To lease gold, one needs cash as collateral. Some of this must be set aside, as margin to cover volatility in the spread (this trade has no price exposure). The rest can be deployed in this trade.
And what will the buyer of the gold do? He may very well take it out of the COMEX warehouse. As the first graph at the top of this article shows, many of these buyers did in fact take it out. By way of clarification, the buyer and his metal are not important. The important party here is the one who sold you the future. So long as he is due to receive gold on or before he must deliver gold to you, the system functions.
There will come a day when he can't deliver. But the fact of falling COMEX stocks is not an indicator and today is not that day. Watch the gold cobasis (published weekly by Monetary Metals). Look for permanent
gold backwardation as the harbinger.
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this guy is a well known tosspot who thinks he knows what he is talking about but actually is a paraiah among the new austrian school. Ignore him, he is truly ignorant as well as being a twat, even claiming that silver conspiracy theorists think that the methodology of JPM is 'naked shorting' - clearly knows absolutely nothing about it. Seems like he spends most of the time in the mirror which if you've seen the state of him is a scary thought - look up sandeep jaitly if you want real insight on the basis/co-basis not this douchus....it is a subject of great merit but get your knowledge from the right source, not a tainted one.
I liked the way MM set up lots of basic errors that most informed commentators are not making, and then corrected them.
Listen to me! Only I know the truth!
Snotty disdain is generally more effective when you actually have something new and useful to offer. And I saw nothing new in this piece, except for some speculation that is no better than any other.
I thought it was indeed helpful because it explains the concept of the basis and cobasis. It also implicitly refutes the continual refrain that "gold has no yield" as now we can see that in addition to generating lease income, gold can provide an income stream through the carry/decarry trades.
I hate to break it to you, but just like everything else, the 'official' COMEX numbers are cooked.
Sorry, but you still did not explain why the gold is coming out of the COMEX...or did I miss it???
He explained it at the end: gold is leaving comex because the counterparty to the decarrying arbitrageur is withdrawing it from the warehouse. This makes sense: as metal prices fall, sales volume increases (of bars, jewelry, and even industrial demand), so warehouse withdrawals occur to satisfy that demand in the short term.
Dare uze be gold in dem dare hills until dem pesky pan 'andlers gonan dug itup
The gold pipeline will be mighty empty over the next decade as many miners will cease operations. Just the decline in ore grades mined and the dramatic increase in mining costs point to that. Meanwhile do you think the Asians will have less demand? Unlikely.
Yes, JPM et al can paint the tape any which way, but the rock will meet hard place within a few years. Patience, patience, patience.
I suppose you can look at the basis, or the future price minus the spot price. But since both prices are manipulated, how can draw any firm conclusions without having insider knowledge? People involved in setting the prices in these markets must make outsiders look like tinfoil hat wearers.
You are making the assumptions that: 1) it is manipulated; 2) it is only manipulated in one direction (now why the hell would they not manipulate it in both directions, so they can make twice the profits, as they have done in LIBOR, FX, etc.???).
I worked on COMEX. I do not think the warehoues numbers are manipulated. You have to keep in mind that a large number of the clerks don't even have high school degrees (Hi, Snowden!) so a lot of discrepancies do occur as a result of human error. This is one of the reasons why the exchange went from open outcry to electronic trading (elimination of human error, in addition to all the other efficiencies).
When do we get charts on the amount of Gold and Silver lost in Boating Accidents?
Another pile
To predict prices, maybe you should be looking at inventory at Bowaters?
The gold is going to Shanghai. $32 premium there.
Manipulators of Gold May Not Be Who You Think
Interesting -(link 2)
"That leaves speculation that this is the handiwork of some large hyper-leveraged rogue hedge fund, a whale. There's precedent for this. Hedge funds could be used as foils or set-ups for squeezes by big bullion banksters"
The only rogue whale connecected enough to put balls on the block that comes to mind is G. Soros. But, I'm sure there are others working for the Rothcillers.
After reading this, I need coffee
Allow me to boil this article down and connect the only two dots that matter. When JPM sells 500 tonnes of paper gold in one nanosecond, succeeding in driving gold dollar prices over the cliff, this cobasis infomercial posing as analysis is Horsefuck.
Copies to NSA, TSA, CIA, FBI, NASA, CSI, CSI Miami, MGM, M&M, S&P, A&P, TG&Y.
The best part about the above article is your comment!!! Made it worth the read!!
any word of the peruvian ball bearing magnets' attempt to take delivery? inquring minds want to know.
It is apparently being assumed that all the data in these beautiful charts are reliable. Just like the COT which is of course a model of integrity.
"Gold cobasis" and "permanent gold backwardation" are jargon terms flawed for the same reason and have never been validated as predictors of anything.
The price of physical gold in any significant amount for immediate delivery ( and I don't mean a handful of Eagles from your local coin dealer) is never published because it of its dependence on the amount purchased and the location of the transaction.
In addition to the aforementioned FOFOA I recommend Jim Willie's articles (both public and in the Hat trick letter subscription) because he has contacts in the real market and does not produce academic babble like the above.
That's nonsense. If you want more than 100 ounces of gold or 5000 of silver you can take physical delivery off of COMEX. Until and unless a default in delivery happens, statements to the contrary are WISHES not facts.
Oh come on gimme a break I like Willie but isn't his making a comparison of physical likeness between Bernanke and the creator of Matrix silly?
I like this article and its should be noted that this "academic babble" follows Fekete's observations.
P.S. I agree that "the info with a disclaimer" may not be reliable, but as to the approach it doesn't seem any less valid than other readings of similar material (CoT, etc).
inb4 $ABX
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With all the manipulation going on, all 'facts' and charts are suspect. The fundamentals of owning the precious metals by people wanting to retain value with liquidity along with a hedge against shenanigans of all types by all types remain the same. Period.
Whoa there shitizen!
looks like youve had a bit too much to THINK!
im afraid im going to need to see some identification, even though we already have all of your data, im going to need to push you around and dog train you so the other slaves dont get any funny ideas about outdated concepts like freedom and liberty.
Hello Monetary Metals,
1.) Your arbitrage explanation regarding the removal of physical from GLD is wanting. That is plain if one does even a cursory analysis of the flow of physical in and out of the fund on a day to day, week to week, or even a month to month basis. I refer you to FOFOA's blog where a far more compelling explanation awaits on the meaning of the steady drain of physical from GLD.
2.) As for the basis, given what we know about the manipulation of Libor and now the shenanigans in the FOREX market, there is precious little justification for placing any creedence in metrics of the sort that inform your gold basis analysis.
All of that...,
was just a sales pitch?
When a market participant sells physical gold and buys a future position to cover, the exposure is to a failure to secure physical gold in the future to close out the position.
Rising lease rates and rising cobasis speaks of gold shortage - which is difficult to explain in a world with 5 billion oz. above ground.
It appears that increasingly, the market is less interested in paper profits and more interested in securing physical gold.
Well, I agree with you mainly, but it is not difficult to explain. When prices decline, demand spikes, so we would expect near-term shortages, increasing lease-rates and a rising cobasis until stocks can be replenished. That's the inducement for long term holders to temporarily decarry, filling the gap. Presumably, prices will rise again, quenching demand and contango will be re-established.
The movement now is to physical possession of metal.
Cyprus accelerated an already heated trend and the revelation of metal delivery default by banks holding gold for clients (think ABN Amro) has rippled through the market raising the urgency of delivery for metal owners.
In addition, the Chinese and Indians are buying hand over fist:
registered, non-regestered, eligible, non-eligible, cobasis, ratio, futures, ETF share, certificate, etc. etc. etc.
Why make it so complicated to own gold and silver?
Because the banking crooks want that. Easier for them to steal when the issue is fogged in and confusing.
Just buy the stuff outright. Exchange your fiat for the real thing and take immediate delivery.
There now. Done deal. Take it and put it some where safe. No muss. No fuss. No third party risk. Simple.


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A book describing the evolution by artificial selection (Richard Dawkins style) of 3 dimensional CSG objects.
This book describes the software techniques used by Todd to enable Latham to create his virtual sculptures. The book has lots of pretty pictures, some not so pretty sketches of Latham's also take up several pages. The text is simple enough that even a five year old could understand it. Unfortunately, the information content is also of similar standard.
This might make a pretty coffee table ornament but as a research text it seems to take a simple (but effective) technique for computer modelling, and turn it into a saga stretching over far too many pages. I would think that you could gain all there was to gain from this book by flicking through the pictures at the book shop and reading the blurb.
To be fair, perhaps this book was meant as a coffee table type volume. In this case the glossy pictures serve it well. (But then there is far too much pseudo-technical discussion for such a book. Who knows? I'm confused.)Alan Dorin, 9 Dec 94

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Viber: We want to share revenues with wireless carriers
BARCELONA, Spain--Viber CEO Talmon Marco said joyn--a rival messaging service being offered by some wireless carriers--will not be successful. Specifically, he said joyn is "no fun" and has "no future." He also said Viber is open to revenue-sharing deals with wireless carriers and he said the company recently signed its first carrier partnership with operator Axis in Indonesia.
Viber CEO Talmon Marco, left, discusses the company's service while Suk-Chae Lee, CEO of KT, Hans Vestberg, CEO of Ericsson, and René Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, (left to right) look on.
Marco made his comments during a keynote here at the Mobile World Congress trade show about the future of communications. His comments were particularly noteworthy considering Suk-Chae Lee, CEO of KT, and René Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, were onstage with him and both carriers support the GSMA's RCS-based joyn effort. Joyn is being pushed as a way for carriers to take back some of the revenues they have lost to "over-the-top" providers like Viber, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. In the United States, MetroPCS (NYSE:PCS) has launched joyn.
Marco said joyn services do not provide much more functionality than existing messaging services like Viber and others. He said joyn services remind him of the maxim that "a camel is a horse designed by committee."
The comments likely were especially biting to Deutsche Telekom's Obermann; DT last month said it will indefinitely delay the launch of its own joyn services due to technical problems.
During the keynote, Marco, Lee and Obermann discussed how wireless carriers can respond to OTT players like Facebook, Google, Skype and others. Operators have been losing messaging and voice revenues to OTT players that offer those services for free, a situation that some operators have railed against as unfair. "That is a fact of life and we need to deal with it," Obermann said.
Marco recommended that, instead of attempting to compete directly with OTT companies, carriers instead partner with them through revenue-sharing agreements. He said Viber's deal with Axis provides the carrier's users with access to Viber at a reduced price, and the carrier is then able to encourage those users to upgrade to more expensive data plans.
But Marco said Viber also is open to other types of agreements with carriers. For example, he said Viber could team with a carrier to offer enhanced voice calling over a carrier's voice network, and the two companies could share the resulting revenues from charges to end users. Marco hinted that some deals are already in the works: "Expect to hear some pretty cool things later this year," he said.
Marco said Viber now counts 175 million users and that the company's services cost $200,000 per month to run. He said the reason OTT services like Viber have been successful is because carriers have not been quick enough to innovate. "There's no difference between the SMS of 1993 and 2013," he said.
Marco also blasted the notion that messaging services like Viber are only used by young people in emerging markets who wish to avoid excessive carrier messaging fees. He said 90 percent of mobile customers in Monaco are Viber users; the average per capita GDP in Monaco is $178,800 and the average age is 49.
"Consumers want innovation," Marco said.
Related articles:
MetroPCS says joyn launch proceeding smoothly despite DT's troubles
Deutsche Telekom indefinitely delays Joyn launch date, admits to technical issues
MetroPCS expands joyn messaging service to more smartphones
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Les coups de glotte and other coups
Yesterday I discovered that the French for glottal stop is coup de glotte ("blow of the glottis"). The word coup (blow, shot, stroke, wave, kick, punch, move) appears in many other expressions, including: – (donner un) coup de balai = (to) sweep; shake up – coup de vent = blow of wind – coup de […]
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Gabions and the importance of names
The other day I discovered that the name for those wire cages filled with rocks used in construction and to stabilise river banks, hillsides and shorelines are called gabions. The word comes from the Italian gabbione (big cage), which comes from the Latin cavea (cage). There are plenty of gabions around here, but I didn't […]
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Novi Sad
As I'm going to the Polyglot Conference in Novi Sad (Нови Сад) [nôʋiː sâːd] in October, I thought I should find out what Novi Sad actually means – it's the kind of thing I like to know. I guessed that Novi probably means new, but had no idea what Sad might mean. According to this […]
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While listening to Deutschlandradio this morning one word that kept on coming up and that I didn't understand was Stockung. It appears mainly in traffic reports, so I assume it meant something like delays or traffic jams. According to Reverso, Stockung means: – interruption, hold-up; congestion, traffic jam, hold-up – breakdown (in negotiations) – slackening […]
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Knock Cnoc
The element Knock is quite common in place names in Ireland, e.g. Ballyknock, Castleknock, Gortknock, Kilknock and Knockaderry [source]. There's also quite a few places called simply Knock, the best known of which is the Knock in County Mayo in the west of Ireland , which is known as An Cnoc (the hill) or Cnoc […]
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If an Australian visitor to the UK asked you for directions to somewhere they called Logoburroo [lɔgɜʉbəˈrʊː] would you know what place they were referring to? A friend of mine heard an Australian pronouncing Loughborough, a town in Leicestershire in central England, in this way and thought it was an interesting attempt at the name. […]
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Curing, cleaning and caring
Yesterday I discovered that there are quite a few different French translations of the verb to cure, depending on what kind of cure you're talking about. If you're curing food by salting, the French equivalent is saler (to salt); curing by smoking is fumer (to smoke), and curing by drying is sécher (to dry). Curing […]
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I came across the wonderful German word Schnurrbart [ˈʃnʊrba:ɐ̯t] recently and just liked the sound of it. The Bart part means beard – you can see the connection – and the Schnurr part comes from schnurren (to purr). According to Wikipedia: "Ein Schnurrbart ist ein über der Oberlippe wachsender Bart." or "A moustache is an […]
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Market places
Last week the origins of the word agora came up in conversation and I thought I'd find out more. An agora was a place of gathering or marketplace in Ancient Greece. It comes from the Ancient Greek ἀγείρω [ageirō] (I gather, collect), from the Proto-Indo-European *ger- (to assemble, gather together), which is the root of […]
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Voices and calls
After writing yesterday's post I was thinking about the Czech word hlas [ɦɫas] (voice, vote) and realised that it is quite similar to the Welsh word for voice, llais [ɬais]. I wondered it they share the same root. Hlas comes from the Proto-Slavic *golsъ (voice), from the Proto-Balto-Slavic *galsas (voice), from the Proto-Indo-European *golHsos, from […]
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OTR FOUNDATION: Or at least we hope the Over-the-Rhine Foundation will be a winner. The nonprofit group currently is in the running to receive a $25,000 prize in a contest held by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. If the local group wins the online voting competition, it will use the money to save at-risk buildings in OTR, a neighborhood that's believed to be the largest historic district in the nation. The foundation was one of 100 finalists and now has made it into the top three. The other two contenders are old theaters in Texas and Oregon, but we're guessing that the money would have a bigger impact if used here. If you haven't voted yet, hurry up and do it: Voting ends June 30. People can vote at www.preservationnation.org.
JOHN BOEHNER: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint last week against the blubbery House Speaker from West Chester.
The group alleges Boehner violated a law designed to stop officials from overspending appropriations. In April Boehner directed the Office of General Counsel (OGC) to hire its own attorney to protect the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court challenges, after the Justice Department deemed it unconstitutional. But CREW notes the Antideficiency Act prohibits federal officials from making expenditures above the amount available in appropriated funds. The $500,000 allocated for the attorney is more than 35 percent of the OGC's budget, and would leave insufficient funds to cover both its own salaries and the costs of defending DOMA.
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Sunday, September 03, 2006
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first things first, i have been busily composting trying to keep our soil rich and productive. this is the black gold that end up with.
the ingredients are simple, manure and wheat straw. sure other things get added like coffee grounds, lime sand and urine but mostly we compost our cow manure. this batch is almost there.
this is the current "add to here" pile the guineas scrap around in here for bit of undigested grain and bugs.
tabitha is proud of her harvest of butternut squash.
we spent the afternoon weeding and mulching the asparagus bed. we let it get a little out of control but it seems to be still very healthy. i'll add some slightly green compost to the top of the mulch just after the first frost. they'll like nutrients and the threat of scorching the stalks will be nill.
here merlin is eating the weeds that i pulled from the asparagus bed.
i built this little frame for the wet rich kitchen waste. this will be perfect for the chickens to scratch around in and eat what the may and the remainder can compost into a a rich loam for the garden.
here are our two dead orchard trees--killed by sme unknown peril. they seem poisoned but none of the spraying agencies will claim responsibility
i tilled this swath of garden 3-4 foot wide and we planted turnips maybe a week or so late but we love turnip greens steamed and they will be here soon. turnips are a neglected root vegetable they are wonderful sliced steamed, buttered and salted period.
our guineas are on garden patrol and are very appreciated for dispensing of many of our garden pests.
rosie is really setteling in around here.
the chicks are now chickens and growing at an amazing rate. the interloping raccoon has realized the futility of any further attemps at killing my chickens and have left us alone. i don't think i'll try to trap him aymore.
5 comments:
- Abigail said...
I would say Tabitha's pride in her squash is justified! Nice haul. I love butternut squash. Mmm.
- Danielle said...
Wow, your guina hens are beautiful! Do they lay well and in a regular spot?
How long does cow manure have to compost in order to use it on your garden?
I'm super impressed with Tabitha's butternuts. I actually got 2 eeny teeny butternuts this year from seeds I saved from last years organic farmer's market. I was impressed with that, but her harvest puts mine to shame. Butternut and acorn are absolutley the best squash in my opinion.
Nice asparagus beds. I don't think I even knew you all had made beds for them. You'll be rolling in asparagus within the next couple of years!!! So yummy!
Merlin is a sweetie. When can you eat him?
- karl said...
yes that is something to be proud of. the other half of the harvest is at the other end of the bean arbor. that pile is not quite as large.
the guineas aren't sexually mature yet. we aren't really sure what their sexes are either. the compost is dependant on so many things moisture, temperature, how often i mix it and contents. usually it takes about 7 weeks. i can speed things up by mixing more often. butternuts yum. the asparagus is like our secret garden. we covet it and hope to relish in asparagus glory each spring. merlin is a naughty boy and i salivate every time i look at him. we have just been discussing the weaning of that naughty boy and sending him to pasture with mikes cows for the next 6 months or so. our freezer couldn't take a slaughtered cow right now. the kids already say "merin burgers, yum" when they see him.
- Ed Abbey said...
Karl - any tips on planting asparagus? I've tried planting it several times with limited success and I've always guessed it was soil PH though I don't know for sure. It grows wild here along the fence rows so that I usually get my fill but it would be nice to have a source right in my back yard.
- karl said...
ed abbey,
if asparagus grows wild there then, the soil should also be great for a little secret garden of your own. the only tips i have are buy from reputable company. we got ours at johnnyseeds.com. we simply followed the directions that they sent with the crowns. everyone that we talked with about this has all these complex, convoluted and busy work instructions on how to plant asparagus. we eventually ignored everyone except johnnys. they send them at the right time of year (pre pay/order them cause they run out) and you just plant them right away. no waiting around after they arrive.
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They may seem like the unlikeliest of chefs — ex-convicts and former drug users, people with empty pockets and no home addresses — cracking lobster tails and searing salmon in the back kitchen of a former downtown hotel.
Looking just as out of place have been the instructors barking orders at them over the years — an A-list that includes venerable chef Tom Douglas, along with chefs from such establishments as Canlis, Rover's, The Herbfarm, Flying Fish and Earth & Ocean.
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One former homeless man now works at Dahlia Lounge making Douglas' signature Triple Coconut Cream Pie. A recovering drug addict is an apprentice chef at Salty's in West Seattle, studying under corporate executive chef Dan Thiessen. Other once-homeless people have gone on to cook for Etta's Seafood at Pike Place Market and P.F. Chang's in Seattle.
Quietly, in the past five years, a nonprofit training program called FareStart has become a key player in Seattle's social-service scene, training homeless people in food-service jobs with the help of visiting chefs who would be the envy of any culinary school.
Next year, the program will move from leased space at the Josephinum, a low-income apartment complex on Second Avenue, to the former Jersey's Sports Bar on the corner of Westlake and Seventh avenues. FareStart bought the property last summer for $4 million, a purchase made possible by a capital campaign that has raised $6 million of an $8 million goal.
Much of the rest of the money will be used to build a 6,000-square-foot kitchen and catering area, three large classrooms, storage and office space, and a large dining area. There, FareStart plans to double its kitchen capacity and train up to 500 homeless people annually — twice the current number.
"They are actually moving people out of homelessness," said Vince Matulionis, an expert on homelessness for the United Way of King County. "That is part of the reason why they are so successful and can attract guest chefs."
Since 1992, FareStart has placed about 80 percent of its 1,500 graduates in food-service jobs — from grocery delis and cafes to catering services and restaurants in Washington and other states, administrators said.
Four years ago, Nathan Tresch, 32, of SeaTac, was shooting up amphetamines and living in shelters. Now he's an apprentice chef at Salty's.
Five years ago, Jacob Ulii, 40, of Preston, was in prison for violating a restraining order. Now he's based at Dahlia Lounge, making pastries for four of Douglas' restaurants.
David Cochran, part-owner and executive chef of P.F. Chang's in Seattle, has hired five prep and line cooks from Fare-
Start. He likes the program, he said, because students "have to prove that they want that second chance by completing the intensive training."
Born on Capitol Hill
The program began in 1987 in the kitchen of a church on Capitol Hill, where it fed a small number of homeless people.
But founder David Lee wanted to teach marketable skills to the homeless, and by 1992, FareStart's new mission was established: to be a place for the down-on-their-luck to reinvent themselves.
Then, as now, the program's ranks came from homeless shelters, drug-rehab centers and, in some cases, prison. FareStart doesn't take violent offenders or people with chronic mental illnesses, and alcoholics and drug addicts must first complete a rehabilitation program.
Each 16-week course has 45 to 55 students who are found beds at local shelters, given clothes and required to follow strict hygiene codes. Classes include stress management along with lessons on sautéing and braising.
Under the supervision of a full-time culinary staff, students make 2,500 meals daily for shelters and local Head Start programs, for FareStart's cafes in Rainier Valley and at the downtown Central Library, and for a catering service and restaurant at the training site.
Those food services generate 40 percent of the program's $3 million annual operating budget; the rest comes from donations and grants, according to the group's financial report.
"Guest Chef" is its showcase. Every Thursday, a top chef teaches students how to make elaborate, three-course meals that are served to the public that evening at the Josephinum for $19.95 per person. Reservations often fill up months in advance.
Under the chef's supervision, students prepare, cook and plate such gourmet dishes as Tequila Marinated Lobster and melon salad, Pan Seared Alaskan Halibut with Yakima Asparagus, and Roasted Spring Onions and Vanilla Brown Butter.
With the support of such luminaries as Douglas of the Dahlia Lounge, FareStart has the cachet to recruit other top cooks to volunteer, FareStart spokesman David Carleton said.
"Guest Chef" night is also where careers are made.
A changed life
Tresch, the former amphetamine user, caught the attention of Salty's corporate executive chef Thiessen in the FareStart kitchen last year.
"When he said, 'Who wants to work with me?' I raised my hand and said, 'Me, here,' " said Tresch, a 2004 graduate of FareStart.
"Nathan had what it takes to make it in this business: patience, a hard-work ethic, fundamental skills" and an ability to do numerous tasks at once, Thiessen said.
Tresch just completed the first year of a three-year apprenticeship and wants to be a chef or own a restaurant, his days of sleeping in shelters and shooting up amphetamines a distant memory, he said.
He started using drugs because he got "bored with life and his job" as a computer programmer, he said, often getting so high at night that he'd be late for work, or not make it in at all. Eventually, his boss fired him, his wife left him and his landlord evicted him.
In 2002 he was charged with possessing drugs; the charge was dropped after he completed a rehabilitation program. He discovered FareStart and realized that his future was in front of a sauté station, not a computer.
About 40 percent — or 1,000 — of the program's students have washed out. Some quit. Some have drug relapses and are kicked out until they complete treatment again. Some return to the streets.
Others are a work in progress.
Ulii, 40, spent two years in prison for contacting his wife in violation of a restraining order. After his release from the Monroe Corrections Center five years ago, he lived on the streets of Seattle until a shelter referred him to FareStart.
He enrolled, then dropped out. But realizing he had no chance of a good life on the streets, he returned, graduating with honors in 2000. He later got hired as a pastry cook at Dahlia Lounge.
But last summer, he got angry with his ex-wife and withdrew money from her checking account. He was charged with third-degree theft in District Court in Skagit County. The case is still pending, though he has apologized to his wife, Dove Ronai, who said she believes he is a changed man — someone who may not be perfect but is slowly progressing.
"He has done a fantastic job at work," said Ronai, who has custody of their two teenage children. "I am proud of him, and it gives his kids something to be proud of, too."
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The Chinchilla United Methodist Church, 411 Layton Road, will host its annual Concerts on the Lawn series, beginning on Wednesday, June 25, at 7 p.m. with a performance by Rich Wilson. Wilson performs music from the 1950s and 1960s as well as some country and gospel music. Dejà Vu will perform on Wednesday, July 23, at 7 p.m., and will feature music ranging from the 1950s through the 1980s. Country music artist Dani-elle (pictured) will perform as a part of the church's annual Family Fun Day on Saturday, Aug. 16, beginning at 2 p.m.
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Canadian producer Robert Lantos was smart to world premiere the long-gestating Barney's Version at the Venice Film Festival instead of home-town Toronto; the book sold over over 700,000 copies in Italy, and won Venice's Golden Lion Cub award (voted by high school students). Lantos even moved the Paris section of the book to Italy.
Several early reviews for Barney's Version are in and they're largely positive. Review links are below.
The movie is based on Canadian author Mordecai Richler's literary opus and stars Paul Giamatti as Barney Panofsky, a rumpled low-level TV producer who burns through three different marriages to Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver and Rachelle Lefevre, who all attended Sony Pictures Classics' packed annual dinner Saturday night. (The company has ten films at TIFF.) Richard J. Lewis directed the movie, which also stars Dustin Hoffman as Barney's pragmatic, elderly father. SPC acquired Barney's Version just before the fest; they plan to give it a one-week Oscar qualifying run before opening wider in January.Barney's road to the screen was ten years long. At the beginning, Lantos met Richler over cigars and booze, but the meetings led to little as the lively novelist's first script was overwrought. Michael Koneyves penned the final draft. Hoffman swore he wouldn't appear in the film: he told Lantos, "I want to be really clear. I'm not going to make this movie." Canadian weekly Maclean's reports that Hoffman wanted to play Barney himself. Lantos had to tell the septuagenarian that Barney is supposed to be in his thirties.
THR writes:
"The impeccably cast confessional, with a pitch-perfect Paul Giamatti leading the way, nimbly traverses the four decades in its lead character's eventful life with considerable exuberance, visual flair and, ultimately, grace."
Screen Daily agrees:
"If it finally wins us round, it's also thanks to a nuanced performance by Paul Giamatti, who keeps us teetering between sympathy and repulsion for Barney the Montreal Jewish mensch, marital philanderer, foul-mouthed social liability, hard drinker, self-hater, low-grade TV producer and possible murderer, through four decades of his messily authentic life. Dustin Hoffman also puts in one of his tastiest performances in years as Barney's peppy, irreverent policeman father."
Variety praises Giamatti, but not the film:
"The dizzying comic energy and intellectual vigor of Mordecai Richler's 1997 satire have largely been drained from director Richard J. Lewis' agreeable but inevitably lesser version of "Barney's Version." Absent the novel's wildly entertaining digressions and chronological acrobatics, the strange, decades-spanning tale of Barney Panofsky -- thrice-married Montreal Jew, hack TV producer and suspected killer -- emerges onscreen as a middle-tier marriage drama distinguished by an excellent Paul Giamatti in a familiar curmudgeon role. Acquired by Sony Classics before its Venice and Toronto bows, the Canadian-Italian production faces an uphill battle connecting with smart, literate audiences."


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Rickrolling, one of the biggest Internet memes of all time, is a goofy, harmless-but-irritating Internet prank. On an ordinary website, clicking on a hyperlink will take you to another website or another part of the same website. Most web authors aren't trying to trick their users, so when you click a link you know where you're going to end up. For example, if you click on the link below you would expect to be taken to a page explaining more about the Internet Safety Project. You probably wouldn't expect to be taken to a video of British 80s star Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up." That's the joke. Rickrollers put links to this video on their site in unexpected places, and unwary readers end up at Astley's video.
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As time has passed, this meme has mostly died out. If you're still worried about being rickrolled though, most browsers will show you the address of any link if you hover your mouse over it. If it's a video hosting site (Youtube, Vimeo, etc.) and it shouldn't be, whoever posted the link is probably trying to prank you.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Anger over City Hall's puppet Redistricting Commission's draft maps has inflamed long-simmering resentments all over town over how communities of interest have been ignored deliberately as part of the political machine's divide-and-conquer strategy. On Saturday, about 50 residents of the Foothill communities – Sunland-Tujunga, Shadow Hills,
Lake View Terrace, La Tuna Canyon, and Sun Valley — held an emergency meeting to plan how to fight being pulled from CD 2 (Krekorian) and divided up into CD 6 and CD 7 (Cardenas and Alarcon). These are dangerous people when they come together as they did in defeating corporate giant Home Depot's scheme to change the small town western feel of their community. Curiously, the LA Times' story Sunday on the redistricting controversy focused on CD4 (LaBonge) and seems to suggest that voting rights laws protecting race, ethnicity and communities of interest should also recognize keeping cool people together and not put them with "ugh, the Valley" types. You know like people who are Silver Lake hipsters should "have nothing to do with the flats in the Valley." Or as Tom LaBonge, who would get Studio City, Sherman Oaks and Encino, put it: "The only common thread here is the Canadian geese that
migrate from the Encino Reservoir to the Silver Lake Reservoir." No insult intended, you can be sure. The Foothill activists are meeting again Tuesday night at the North Valley City Hall at 7 p.m. Tomi Lyn Bowling offers this account the passions that have been reawakened by City Hall's redistricting dirty trick:
Sleeper Has Awakened
with birthplaces all over the world. They have different religions, different
politics, and are individually different in so many ways.
So who would have ever thought that so much
diversity would melt away to become the common ground of fighting off a
corporate giant in what has become the hometown of so many passionate
individuals in Sunland-Tujunga.
But melt away diversity did.
United in a force unlike anything ever before
in the city of Los Angeles these people fought, and won! Victories had seemed
to come somewhat easy to this small rural mountain draped community as one by
one the land-use victories added up.
But it was the fight with mega corporate
giant Home Depot that the community is most well known for.
Fast forward to seven years later and this
once united community like so many others in LA had gone on with life and each
individual that once stood shoulder to shoulder had all but forgetten their
unity. Or had they?
It was a cold December 2011 day when whispers
began to fill the air that a change was looming. Off in their own individual
worlds barely an eyebrow was raised. Then January came and the change rose it's
ugly head; the map that proposed to rip this formiddable community apart at the
seams. \
Like a well rehearsed orchestra these soulful
people dropped their individuality, forgot the squabbles, pushed aside their
personal lives and took their place shoulder to shoulder once again in
opposition to the maps proposed by the Redistricting Commission threatening the
last vestage of rural life in Los Angeles.
Vowing to protect that last rural corner of
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Snow Removal Priorities
New Albany's snow removal priorities begin with clearing highways and our most highly traveled roadways and streets, also known as arterial roads. Emergency travel for fire, emergency medical and police personnel is the highest snow removal priority. The second priority is to clear roads around schools and to facilitate traffic moving in and out of the city by clearing collector roads which carry traffic into and out of subdivisions. Courts, alleys and other subdivision residential streets are cleared last, as they carry the lowest amount of traffic. The number of trucks assigned and the plan implemented during any given storm is dependent on the severity of the event.
The top two priorities illustrate why main roads are salted and/or plowed before subdivisions are cleared. If subdivisions were cleared first, emergency vehicles would still not have efficient access to homes because the main roads would not have been cleared.
Salt Spreading and Snow Plowing Procedures Snow plowing is not productive until snow fall reaches a depth of approximately two inches. Prior to plowing, crews will spread deicers, liquid and/or granular, in an attempt to prevent snow and ice from bonding to the pavement. Initially, when used, salt is spread on arterial and collector roads. This will melt the first amount of fallen snow and reduce the build-up of frozen material at the pavement surface. Once these roads are under control then residential street clearing will begin.
If accumulations exceed two inches crews will begin plowing as they spread deicers. During intense storms the spreading of deicers will be discontinued and crews will plow until such time as snowfall stops.
As the last step in the cleanup from a storm, the area of the street adjacent to the gutter will be plowed back. This is done to allow melting materials to run off and ultimately reach the gutter. This will lessen the amount of icy patches that happen during evening refreezing.
At the end of each snow event, crews strive to have every New Albany road cleared of snow and ice within 24 hours.
Snow Shoveling Tips Residents and businesses are reminded that they are responsible for clearing their walkways. The New Albany Public Service Department recommends shoveling snow away from the street so that snow is less likely to get pushed back onto the driveway or sidewalk by a passing snowplow. This should be done by piling snow to the right side of the driveway (on two-way streets). This allows snowplows to reach the snow pile after it passes the driveway. Keep in mind that for the postal service to maintain mail delivery, you must clear the snow in front of your mailbox for their access.
Be Patient Patience is a virtue when traveling in snow storms. Motorists need to give themselves more time to drive to their destinations, not follow salt and plow trucks too closely, and not attempt to pass salt trucks. If these simple steps are followed, motorists stand a greater chance of getting to their destination safely.


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NBA Pre-Season action will visit the Ohio State University campus on Monday.
The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Philadelphia 76ers are facing off at the Schottenstein Center Monday night.
Former Ohio State Buckeye Evan Turner stars for the 76ers.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have re-hired coach Mike Brown to their bench. Brown told 10TV that he believes the Cavs are playoff contenders.
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This is an awesome campground - very wooded and serene. The lake must be a great fishing spot, though we didn't try it out. We were in site #10 and it has a large slope, but was a nice location. The bathhouse was amazingly clean and must be fairly new. The pool was not open while we were there, so check the schedule if that is important to you. The fish cleaning station is a very nice screened in porch area. We would definitely camp here again and recommend it. - westie0506
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Holyoke School District Re-1J Board of Education will meet Tuesday, May 7 at 7 p.m. in HJHS Room #218.
Included in the superintendent's report will be a teacher evaluation instrument update, budget parameters update and TCAP third-grade reading results.
Action items on the agenda include approval of budget parameters, 2013-14 probationary teacher renewals, 2013-14 non-probationary teacher renewals and 2013-14 notice of employment for classified employees.
Board member items include Safe 2 Tell, Colorado High School Activities Association report and graduation presenters.
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Hearing Loss in Children
Early detection of hearing loss in children is critical in taking remedial action in either treating and correcting the hearing problem or providing amplification through hearing aids where the hearing loss is permanent and untreatable. In cases of very severe hearing loss the child may be fitted with a cochlear implant.
Normal hearing is critical in the acquisition of language and speech skills in a developing child. Hearing loss will also impact on cognitive and psychosocial development.
Heading Loss in Newborns and Infants
At Hearlink, we are equipped to assess the hearing function of newborn babies. Our qualified audiologists will perform a variety of age appropriate hearing tests including objective electrophysiological tests. We have state of the art equipment and promise accuracy in the diagnosis of hearing impairment.
We are registered with the Victorian Infant Screening Hearing Program (VISHP) and perform diagnostic audiological / electrophysiological hearing function tests on babies who have failed their hospital hearing screening test.
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- Sunbury Private Hospital, Cnr. Riddell Rd & Spavin Ave., SUNBURY, 3429, tel: 9326 2231
- Glenroy Road Clinic, 7-15 Glenroy Road, GLENROY, 3046, tel: 9326 2231
- 150 Glengala Road, Sunshine West, 3020, tel: 9326 2232
- 2 Lorne Street, LALOR, 3075, tel: 9326 2231
- Eastbrooke Medical Centre, 493 Keilor Road, NIDDRIE, 3042
- Kardinia Health, 2 - 18 Colac Road, BELMONT (Geelong), 3216, tel: 5241 6400
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Check out out what our guests have to say about their meeting and event experiences at the Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort.
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If you're just not getting enough politics in the news, and you want to infuse your summer reading with scandal, ideals, and wealthy politicians, America America is for you. Celebrated author Ethan Canin's first new work of fiction in seven years tells the familiar story of a boy from a humble family getting sucked into the world of politics and wealth. As the Vietnam War rages and Nixon falters, narrator Corey Sifter learns firsthand just how seedy politics and money can be while he works on Sen. Henry Bonwiller's presidential campaign. Sifter is age 50 at the time of the narration, and uses Bonwiller's death as an excuse to rehash the events that took place during his time in the senator's camp, which include Bonwiller killing an aide in a car crash. Sound familiar? It's more than a bit Ted Kennedy-esque. Nonetheless, Canin uses rich language and scenes to fold the reader into the center of his slightly re-imagined America. Given its hefty size and weighty subject matter, America America is not exactly a good choice for the beach, but it certainly has summer reruns beat.
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Excited for ABC's Duets? Well, it's about time to get a sneak peek! Kelly Clarkson, Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles, John Legend, and Robin Thicke gave Good Morning America a behind-the-scenes look of the new singing competition yesterday.
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Do you remember when horror films actually use to excite us? With all the repetitive crap Hollywood has chosen to feed us over the last few years, it can be hard to remember the last recent film of the genre that was watchable. It is for this reason, and many more, that I present you with what is surely going to be another reason to truly get excited about horror again.
From the guys that brought us the short film "Seizure" and the deliciously disturbing short "32", I give you, "The Dinner Guest." It is the studio's first attempt at a full feature film, but that isn't stopping the enthusiasm for a second. With all original music and sounds, and can lighting being resourcefully used for each and every shot, these guys are working hard to bring horror back to its golden period.
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