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TheNew Cold War
And how to protect yourself from the fallout
Read this report to discover...
- The details on this New Cold War on the African continent… what it means to you and how to survive it
- Canada's crucial role… and how it could determine America's fate
- Profit opportunities for investors as the New Cold War intensifies
- The weapons in America's arsenal that could tip the tide to victory (and lead to life-changing gains)
- The "time bomb" in the Middle East that promises to intensify the conflict
As NATO-aided rebels overwhelmed Qaddafi's forces last summer, 36,000 Chinese engineers, tradesmen, and technicians fled Libya, leaving $20 billion in infrastructure and oil development projects behind in disarray.
China's refusal to support the NATO attacks – and rumors that it offered to sell Qaddafi weapons to squash the revolt – didn't sit well with the Libyan rebels.
Yet, less than one year later, China managed to get itself back in the good graces of the new Libyan leadership by offering to take a major role in the country's post-war reconstruction – clearing the way for Chinese buyers to receive preferential treatment for access to Libyan oil.
But China wants much more than Libya's crude. It sees the country as the perfect springboard to a far bigger prize – control of Africa's massive untapped oil reserves, estimated at 200 to 210 billion barrels. That's about as much as is held by Venezuela, which has the world's second-biggest proven oil reserves.
It's all part of China's "grand plan" to buy up all available energy resources, which it's doing at an alarming rate…
The high-stakes game of
economic survival
The current situation is much like the US-Soviet Union Cold War that loomed over the world for decades.
Now we have two superpowers with conflicting interests battling it out on the world stage again.
Only this time it's not about ideologies… it's about survival.
Even as you read, the US and China are battling it out for the world's ever-dwindling energy resources… and the US appears to be losing.
China has spent $75 billion on
oil acquisitions in the last 5 years
China energy grab news update
The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) made its biggest and boldest grab for energy resources to date in a $15 billion bid for Canadian oil producer Nexen. If the deal, announced on July 23, 2012, goes through, it would give China footholds in the Gulf of Mexico, the Canadian oil sands in Alberta, the North Sea, and the waters off Nigeria.
With approximately $1.5 trillion dollars on hand, China can afford a blank-check policy when it comes to snapping up worldwide energy deposits.
Since 2005, China has closed no fewer than 45 deals in the oil sector alone.
Thirty-two of these were each worth at least $500 million, and eight carried price tags of $3 billion or more.
|Stake in Brazilian unit of Portugal's Galp Energia
|Stake in Opti Canada's Long Lake oil sands project
|Offer to acquire Canadian oil and gas firm, Daylight Energy
|Stake in Chevron's Gendalo-Gehem deep water gas project in Indonesia
|Stake in Pan American Energy from BP
|Stake in Chesapeake's 600,000 net acres in the Eagle Ford Shale
|Stake in Tullow Oil's interest in 3 blocks in Uganda (JV with Total)
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|Stake in Brazilian subsidiary of Spanish oil company Repsol
|Stake in Canada's Penn West Energy Trust's bitumen assets near Peace River
|Stake in Shell's subsidiary, Syria Petroleum Development BV
|Stake in Statoil's Peregrino oilfield in Brazil
|Stake in Canadian oil sands company Syncrude from ConocoPhillips
|Joint bid to own Arrow Energy, Australia-based coalbed methane producer
|Stake in Argentinean oil company Bridas, with oil/gas operations also in Bolivia, Chile
|Stake in Nobel Oil Group to fund Russian expansion plans
|Stake in KMG, by purchasing global depository receipts
|Purchased Kazakhstan TBM's 49% share in Zaysan block (east Kazakhstan)
|Stake in two projects of Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta
|Purchased Emerald Corp. for its assets in Syria and Colombia
|Stake in SPC (Singapore)
|Purchased Addax Corp.
|Joint purchase of MMG (Kazakhstan)
|Stake in block 32 (Angola) from Marathon Oil
|Purchased Tanganyika Corp. for assets in Syria
|Purchased Awilco Corp.
|Stake in Australia's AED Oil
|Stake in Husky (Madura) Energy's assets in Indonesia
|Purchased Soco Yemen for assets in Yemen
|Stake in OML 130 (Nigeria) from South Atlantic Petroleum
|Purchased Block H (Chad) from Swiss company Cliveden
|Purchased EnCana's oil and pipeline interests in Ecuador
|Stake in Udmurtneft for assets in Russia (later sold 51% to Rosneft)
|Stake in JSC Karazhanbasmunai for assets in Kazakhstan
|Stake in Seram block in Indonesia from KUFOEC
|Stake in oil sands projects by acquiring 50% of Omimex de Colombia
|Stake in Northern Lights oil sands project
|Stake in Al Furat Petroleum Company from Petro-Canada
|Stake in MEG Energy for oil sand business
|Stake in block 18 from Angolan government when Shell left
|Purchased Kazakh petroleum assets from First Intl Oil Corp.
|Stake in Tangguh LNG project from BP
|Purchased Atlantis from Norwegian Petroleum Geo-Service
|Stake in block 16 (Ecuador) from ConocoPhillips
|Purchased Devon Energy Corp. for six blocks in Indonesia
|Purchased YPF Repsol's upstream assets in Indonesia
|45 deals involving 21 countries → Total cash outlay by China: US$75 billion
All these acquisitions give China ownership of oil resources in countries from all four corners of the globe – from oil sands projects in Canada and Columbia, to petroleum projects in Angola and Nigeria, to outright purchases of oil companies in Australia.
It's even bought 33% of Chesapeake's Eagle Ford Shale project in southwest Texas.
No US-Canadian oil pipeline?
No problem – China's happy to
snap up Canada's crude
You've probably heard about the controversy around the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline project that was meant to transport crude oil from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries in Texas.
The importance of that pipeline is hard to overstate. That's because Canada has more than 90% of all proven reserves outside of OPEC. In other words, a LOT of oil.
Yet the US government has so far refused to let that pipeline be built, and in doing so is all but handing China another easy victory.
As soon as President Obama nixed Keystone on January 18, 2012, the Canadians panicked, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper began to talk openly about sending the country's oil to Asian markets.
"I am very serious about selling our oil off this continent, selling our energy products off to Asia. I think we have to do that."
– Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in a 12-19-11 interview with Canada's CTV National News
It's not hard to see why.
In 2010, Canada's oil sales to the US comprised a whopping 99% of the country's worldwide exports… approximately 1.9 million barrels of oil a day.
If the Keystone pipeline is not built, Canada's oil sands will still be developed – but instead of the oil being shipped to the US, it will be sent overseas.And China, already a major importer of Canadian oil, is more than happy to take as much oil off the Canadians' hands as they can deliver… quite possibly at premium prices.
A new bull market in oil
It's a vicious battle over resources, but no matter who comes out on top – the US or China – it's creating the perfect conditions for a spectacular bull market.
I should know, because I live and breathe these markets. My name is Marin Katusa, chief energy investment strategist for Casey Research.
You could say energy is my life. I spend 300 days a year traveling throughout the world to inspect energy companies, vetting their resource estimates, finances, and management in order to draw conclusions about their prospects for investors.
And in all my years of advising investors on profit opportunities in natural resources, I've rarely seen one that has more potential than the current energy market.
China's Also Winning the Battle for Saudi Oil
In February 2010, US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that China had surpassed the US in short-term daily average oil imports from Saudi Arabia for the first time.
This is a huge turnaround, since as recently as 2007, Saudi Arabia exported more than twice as much of its oil to the US (15.9%) than it did to China (7.2%).
And while in 2011 the US imported slightly more oil from Saudi Arabia than China did – an estimated 1.18 million barrels of oil per day compared to China's 1.01 million barrels – one is left with the inescapable conclusion that China will continue to compete aggressively with the US for Saudi oil.
In fact, I'm convinced it could easily rival gold's decade-long moon shot.More on those opportunities in a moment – including a low-risk, high-profit play on a company that will profit handsomely regardless of where oil and gas prices go – but first, let's look at some of the hot zones in the intensifying Cold War over energy.
MENA on
the front lines
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are without doubt the fiercest battlegrounds in this clandestine war.
Iran – not taking
no for an answer
Despite American and European clamoring for a worldwide embargo of Iranian oil, China is not about to stop importing crude from this oil-rich Middle-Eastern nation.
Despite American and European clamoring for a worldwide embargo of Iranian oil, China is not about to stop importing crude from this oil-rich Middle Eastern nation.
The reason is simple – Iran is currently the third-largest supplier of oil to China. In fact, rather than cutting its trade, China's Iranian imports rose by 30% in 2011 from the previous year, to 557,000 barrels of oil a day.
So it's no surprise that the Chinese are snubbing the US and Europe. And as a result of its refusal to back the embargo, Iran is quickly becoming the latest hot zone in the New Cold War.But it's not the only one…
The African tug o' war
Determined to maintain a strong presence in Africa, in 2006 the US established military relations with 54 African nations. Dubbed AFRICOM (or USAFRICOM), it's the newest of nine unified combatant commands the US armed forces have set up worldwide.
AFRICOM was established as a not-so-subtle message to China that America would not simply lie back and allow the Chinese to gain control over the continent's abundant natural resources.
And with good reason: In 2004 – for the first time ever – US oil imports from West Africa exceeded those from Saudi Arabia.
By 2010, America was importing 1.8 billion barrels of oil from Nigeria, Angola, Algeria, Congo, Gabon, and Cameroon… while only receiving 1.1 billion barrels from the Saudis.
Now China is competing directly with the US for African oil.
By 2009, Chinese trade with Africa surpassed the US's – and now, according to Newsday, over one million Chinese experts are spread out over 40 African countries to facilitate the exploration of resources.
This action was backed by an investment package of over $100 billion in 2009, with trade between China and Africa surpassing $100 billion by 2010.
Clearly, China means business in Africa, which poses a major threat to America's energy interests.
This has frightening implications for the rest of the world as well. Crude supplies are likely to tighten as China locks up more and more of the world's untapped conventional oil, effectively redirecting it off global markets.
At the same time, though, the specter of rising oil prices is opening up exceptional profit opportunities for investors who know where to look and are willing to act now.
We're still in the early stages – the perfect time to join this up-and-coming bull run because…
China's ravenous appetite
for oil will only get worse
You really can't really blame China for trying to secure as much energy as possible.
- They have the world's largest population, 1.34 billion strong.
- Many of their people are rapidly moving up the economic ladder, which inevitably leads to more energy consumption.
- In 2011 (the last year data are available), their oil consumption jumped from 8.2 to 9.4 million barrels per day. That's over 14% in just two years.
And it's likely to go much higher.
Steven Kipits, an analyst who heads the New York office of energy business consultants Douglas-Westwood, warns that China could consume up to 40 million barrels per day by 2022.
(That's more than double the US consumption of petroleum products, which was over 18.8 million barrels per day in 2011, according to the US Energy Information Administration.)
Adding fuel to the fire in this battle for world oil supremacy is another sobering fact…
Oil-producing countries are
exporting less oil every year
Eight of the world's top 10 oil suppliers are producing less oil every year. Worse – for the countries that rely on oil from these countries – less of this oil is making it to the market.
The following table provides a stark illustration…
|Top Global Oil Suppliers: Four-Year Production and
Export Changes (thousand barrels per day)
|Saudi Arabia
As you can see, six of the above countries have suffered significant drops in production from 2006-2009, and seven have curtailed exports during this period.
But this is nothing compared to what these figures might look like in a few years.
You see, many of these countries' oil fields are aging, and the oil they hold is extracted using old-fashioned technologies. For harvesting easy-to-get-to light sweet crude, these old technologies are fine… but not for the more challenging deposits.
Unfortunately, easily harvested oil is quickly running out.
That means unless the operator – in most of these countries, that's the government – invests huge sums of money to update infrastructure and implement recovery and enhancement techniques, these old fields will continue to be less and less productive.
In April 2011, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted a 90% increase in oil prices within the next five years, due to reduced growth in global oil supplies.
Here's another important factor…
OPEC nations have to subsidize
domestic oil and gas… or else
Countries like Venezuela, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia have boxed themselves into a corner by using oil-export profits to heavily subsidize domestic gasoline.
In March 2011, government subsidies allowed citizens of these countries to buy gasoline for between 6 and 81 cents per gallon. And – to make sure their people stayed happy – they also used oil-export profits to fund massive social programs.
But now – with oil production down and likely to continue dropping – the only way OPEC countries can maintain their government largess is by raising export prices.
In other words, $5+ per gallon gasoline is baked into the US's future.
Granted, a sharp increase in crude prices will cost every one of us dearly. But there's also the opposite side of the coin to consider: opportunity.
Higher prices mean well-run oil producers' profit margins will rise considerably. And for conservative investors, putting their money into oil majors will certainly yield consistent returns.But if you're aiming for more than just a few-percent yield, there's another kind of energy company you should take a look at…
Small-caps: The road to
real wealth in energy
Think you can double your money with, say, Exxon Mobil?
Good luck. This behemoth has a market cap of $406.89 billion and a stock price of $86.33 (at the time of this writing). For it to give you triple-digit returns any time soon, it would need hundreds of billions of dollars in growth.
Small-cap energy companies, on the other hand, can double or triple their profits very quickly… and reward early investors with huge gains.
Take Africa Oil (V.AOI).
After conducting an extensive analysis on this small Canadian oil and gas explorer, my team and I decided to issue a buy recommendation in May 2010, when shares were going for C$0.92. That recommendation went to subscribers of our advisory, the Casey Energy Report, as well as to the viewing audience of BNN, where I was interviewed about the company.
At the time, it had a market cap of C$64.6 million.
On Feb. 22, 2012, 21 months later, I advised subscribers to close out their positions for a 145% gain. Its market cap that day? Over C$400 million.
And while we played it conservatively by locking in these gains – because in today's volatile markets, it's important to secure profits – the stock went on to far greater heights, breaching over $11 a share three months later!
Then there's BlackPearl Resources (T.PXX, formerly Pearl Exploration and Production Ltd.). Subscribers who got in this small-cap heavy oil producer when I gave the green light in September 2008 picked up shares for C$1.00 or less, when its market cap was about C$126.8 million.
On June 18, 2010, less than two years later, I recommended closing our positions at C$3 or better for a 200% gain. The stock's market cap that day? A cool C$783.3 million.
That's the kind of profit power the right small-cap energy stocks can have. And that's not only true for oil companies…
Natural gas – America's big gun in
the energy cold war
Just a few short years ago, America was suffering from a severe shortage of natural gas, despite having colossal amounts of underground reserves.
Fracking Facts
"Fracking" involves forcing a water-based solution mixed with sand into a well until the rock around the well bore cracks, opening up pathways for the gas trapped within the rock to flow up to the surface. Directional drilling increases exposure to shale layers by boring through the shale formations horizontally.
Most of that gas, trapped within masses of shale rock miles beneath the surface, couldn't be extracted with conventional drilling techniques.
But today these resources are far more accessible, due to breakthroughs in "fracking" and directional drilling.
In fact, these technologies could enable producers to harvest 92 years' worth of natural gas, based on the 2010 rate of consumption.
All this newly recoverable gas is creating two profit opportunities few investors are aware of…
Fracking and directional drilling have opened up vast reserves of natural gas – in fact, they have procured more supply than the US needs for its own consumption.
European Shale
Gas Rewards
Back in March 2010, I wrote an analysts' report on European shale gas – the first one ever written, to my knowledge – that alerted my subscribers to under-the-radar profit opportunities in Europe's budding unconventional oil and gas industries.
At this time I recommended a little-known European shale gas producer, Realm Energy International, which gave us a profit of 364% in just under eight months.
Two years before that, I recommended a private-equity-backed shale gas explorer in the UK, Cuadrilla Resources, which netted us a 620% profit in just 16 months.
This has a caused a massive glut of gas in storage and a 50% drop in prices since January 2011 (in fact, I warned Casey Energy Report subscribers years beforehand that there would be a significant drop in natural gas prices).
Natural gas prices are now too low for most producers to economically drill new wells, which will drive some of these producers out of business.
But you know the old economists' adage: The cure for low prices is low prices.
That means the decreased production will inevitably result in a supply shortage of natural gas, which in turn will cause prices to rise… and that's where your opportunity lies.
Right now we're watching several companies that we think will lead the pack once natural gas prices turn around. And when they do, these companies will reward early investors with gains that could be life-changing.
One of these companies is making a global push to increase production levels of oil and gas, including exploratory drill programs totaling over $100 million that encompass over 300 square kilometers in Indonesia.
This is the second time the company has taken on measured exploration risk. The first time was wildly successful – it caused share prices to skyrocket from single to triple digits several years ago. Now prices are down in large part because investors don't want to wait for current exploration efforts to pay off.We're convinced these investors are extremely short-sighted, and we're equally convinced that current management will parlay these expenditures into significant rewards.
As the natural gas market turns around, producers will be scrambling to enlist the help of oil and gas service companies – the firms that actually get their hands dirty doing the drilling and fracking. (Most oil and gas producers don't have their own drill rigs, nor do they employ their own drillers.)
And while natural gas producers are currently facing a declining market, the oil shale industry in North America is booming. As a result, oil and gas service companies are very busy.
And they will get much busier when natural gas inventories drop and prices rise – as they inevitably will. When that happens, gas producers will be scrambling to hire these service companies, which will allow them to pretty much demand any fee they want since they'll have more business than they can handle.
That's why we're getting in position to take advantage of heightened demand for oil and gas service companies right now.
Casey Energy Report subscribers have already begun to see profits: On February 23, 2012, we realized a 50% gain from one service company in just three months.
But we're really just getting started. Right now we have our eyes on two oil and gas service companies that are poised to yield solid short-term profits – and far greater gains within the next few years.
One of them is on the verge of being the next Halliburton – one of the largest providers of oil and gas services in the world. It's done over 6,000 fracking jobs in the last three years alone and is expanding operations all over the globe, with operations currently in Kazakhstan, Algeria, Canada, and the US.
At the time of this writing, the company was trading at around 8 times earnings – the second-lowest P/E ratio of its peers. And it pays a dividend. With all that going for it, we consider the stock an excellent value and are confident it will reward those who buy now.Another "unpopular" energy sector we're watching is…
Uranium: A hated (but necessary) weapon
in the New Cold War
After the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, nuclear power became one of the most reviled energy sources in the US.
This national aversion to uranium is what led contrarian investor Doug Casey – founder and chairman of Casey Research – to consider investing in the sector. With the US's growing demand for power and declining energy supplies, he figured uranium demand would come back… with a vengeance.
The Powerhouses
Barely Blinked?
After the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, it seemed as though the world was turning away from nuclear power. But in reality, the powerhouses behind nuclear growth barely blinked.
While Germany decided to shutter its nine reactors in the wake of the disaster, India, China, the US, and other countries will more than pick up the slack. Together, they have 561 new reactors under construction, planned, or proposed.
But Doug never invests on assumptions, so in 1998 he conducted a careful analysis of the production, inventory, and consumption of uranium worldwide to ensure his hypothesis was ironclad.
After his analysis, he was more convinced than ever that uranium was the contrarian play of a lifetime, so he urged his subscribers to buy three particular small-cap producers.
Within two years, these companies paid those who took his advice huge rewards:
- 1, 351% on Paladin Resources
- 205% on Strathmore Minerals
- 397% on Cameco
Fueled by a surge in worldwide demand, for the next 12 years uranium prices skyrocketed as well, shooting from $8.75/lb at the end of 1998 to closing out 2010 at $62.25/lb (it was a wild volatile ride, with uranium hitting $136/lb in June 2007).
During the same period, uranium production took off, from 35,000 tonnes in 1998 to 56,663 tonnes in 2010 – an increase of 62%.
And while the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan took the wind out of the sails of the uranium market, the supply-demand picture for yellowcake is still strong.
In fact, the World Nuclear Association says demand will rise for decades…
As you can see, there's already a huge gap between primary uranium production and reactor uranium requirements. According to the World Nuclear Association, production from world uranium mines now supplies only about 75% of the requirements of power utilities.
The only thing filling that gap now is secondary sources, like stockpiled uranium and down-blended uranium from old nuclear warheads.
That's why it's all but certain that once again the uranium sector will come roaring back.
And consider this:
- In 2011, the US imported about 91% of the uranium needed to power its 104 reactors from foreign sources, including unreliable – and sometimes hostile – countries like Russia and China.
- Russia – the former archenemy of the US – accounts for about 33% of all imported uranium. Most of that comes from dismantled nuclear warheads in a deal called "Megatons to Megawatts," which powers half of America's nuclear reactors, accounting for 10% of the nation's electricity production. This arrangement allows the US to get uranium at below-market prices, but it ends in 2013… and Russian President Vladimir Putin is nearly certain not to extend it because he knows he can get much more money by selling this uranium on the open market. The result: our former Cold War nemesis will force us to pay much more for the uranium we need to help power our utilities.
- Making matters worse, the US's uranium needs will only grow: five new reactors are slated for completion by the end of the decade.
And this is just the US I'm talking about.
Let's take a look at China: Right now the Asian giant has 14 reactors in operation, with 26 more under construction, 51 planned, and another 120 proposed.
Other countries, like India and Saudi Arabia, are also charging ahead with nuclear-power programs, which will add even more pressure to uranium supplies.
And when you consider there's barely enough uranium being produced to meet today's global demand, it's clear uranium prices are destined to rise, perhaps dramatically.
Right now, we have two uranium producers with great management and excellent track records in our Casey Energy Report portfolio. As of April 23, 2012, our total position gain on one of these companies was 33.6%, the other 292%.
It wouldn't surprise us if the latter quadrupled from here. In fact, back in 2009, that stock gave us a 13-bagger – a 1,300% gain – in just 10 months.
The company's president and CEO is one of the brightest young executives in the natural resource industry. He's bringing new mines into production in Texas and Paraguay, and recently started a new venture in Brazil.
We'll tell you all about him and his outperforming company in Casey Energy Report.
I travel to the front lines of the
New Cold War to find the best energy plays
In the course of any given year, I'm on the road for over 300 days. I've journeyed to Kurdistan, Iraq, Kuwait, and other countries in the Middle East, as well as most of the countries in Africa and other hotspots in the New Cold War to find – and verify – fast-moving energy plays with the potential for extraordinary profits.
I grill management with tough questions to ensure their rosy press releases are backed by facts… I interview geologists to determine how solid their feasibility studies are… I spend time with locals to ensure there isn't significant opposition to a project that could torpedo operations…
In short, I do exhaustive fact-finding – in person – before recommending a company to Casey Energy Report subscribers.
This boots-on-the-ground research is what allows me to find plays like…
- Cuadrilla Resources… a 620% return
- Africa Oil Corp… a 145% return
- Realm Energy… a 364% return
- Simba Energy… a 125% return
My success hasn't gone unnoticed. Movers and shakers in the energy industry – like investment legend Rick Rule, founder and CEO of Global Resource Investments, and Keith Hill of the Lundin Group – often seek my advice.
The media seek me out as well – I'm a regular commentator on the Business News Networks, Canada's largest business TV network; I've appeared as a guest on The Money Show; and I have been quoted in The Globe and Mail, Forbes, International Business Times,and many other well-known publications.
The reason my expertise is so sought after is because of the nature of energy sector investing. As you've seen, there are elephant-sized profits out there for those who do their homework. But in order to realize these gains for your portfolio, it's critical that you understand that energy stocks are volatile.
But this is a good thing – after all, this volatility is what gives us opportunities to buy on dips and enjoy big run-ups.
There's nothing I love more than spotting a profit opportunity that flies under the radar of the Wall Street crowd. And as you've seen, it's something I've been doing consistently for years.
I credit much of my success to my experience as a math teacher…
My transition from teacher to
energy investment strategist
When I was in my early twenties, I taught post-secondary math and calculus.
This was in Vancouver, British Columbia, which, as you may know, is the home of many small mining outfits. One day, an executive from a nearby mining firm asked me to do a mathematical analysis on tungsten.
At the time I knew little about this metal, but over the next four months I devoured everything I could find out about it – where it was found, how much it cost to produce, what the production process was, and so forth. I also compiled data on every tungsten mine – even mines no longer producing.
When I completed my findings, I was convinced that speculating in undervalued companies that produced tungsten would be highly profitable… so I bought shares in a few firms.
These speculations started out badly – in fact I was down 45% after three months or so – but I was completely convinced my analysis was accurate and that I would profit if I gave my speculations enough time.
And boy, was I right –15 months later, I exited the trade with more money than I made in my entire career as a math teacher. But more important than the money, I realized that resource investing was my passion and that I had to follow it.
I also realized I needed a way to speed up the process of analyzing companies, so using my mathematical abilities; I developed an algorithmic software program that cut the time it took me to run calculations in half.
Now I use this program to help me separate companies worthy of investment from firms that may look good at first glance but are best avoided. It also helps me determine the best buy-in prices to recommend for companies that make the cut.
As a result, Casey Energy Report subscribers get to choose from only best of the best energy investments.
A 1,500% winner
Back in 2008, my software program helped me find a tiny uranium miner that was selling for 25 cents a share. It also had $13 million cash on hand – a lot for a company that the market was valuing at only $17.6 million.
It seemed to me that this company was severely undervalued for all it had going for it… so I bought some shares and recommended that my Casey Energy Reportsubscribers do the same.
Within two months, the stock doubled and ultimately shot up to over $4.00 a share – leaving subscribers holding a 1,500% gain.
My software also put me on the trail of other stocks I mentioned earlier, including Africa Oil, BlackPearl, and Cuadrilla.
And as the Cold War over energy intensifies, I expect to unearth many more high-profit energy plays for my subscribers.
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Every month, the Casey Energy Report team and I put together a detailed report on our "energy sector of the month."
We're not one-trick ponies, so our research is about much more than oil. We cover all sectors of the energy complex, as each has the potential to reward you with outsized gains.
Every month, you'll get…
- An in-depth feature article about our "energy sector of the month" – past articles have included the following topics:
- North America's natural gas conundrum
- Canada's oil sands
- The coming energy crisis
- The five new frontiers of oil exploration
- Thriving coal demand
- Israel: a future oil and gas magnate?
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Two-year starter for the Tar Heels • will miss the non-conference phase of the 2012 season while playing with the U20 National Team in Japan at the World Cup • had a spectacular freshman year in 2010, winning national rookie of the year honors • her versatility has been a key for Carolina the past two years as she has started on defense, in the midfield and at forward • primarily played midfield and forward through her youth career but was switched to defense for her U.S. National Team duties • started on defense in summer 2010 for the U20 National Team at the World Cup in Germany just after her 18th birthday • ranked as the No. 9 recruit by TopDrawerSoccer.com coming out of high school • featured in a cover story in ESPN RISE magazine in fall of 2008.
Sophomore Season (2011)
Named a third-team All-America by the NSCAA • 2011 preseason All-America choice by Soccer America • named a first-team All-ACC selection • also named first-team All-Southeast Region by the NSCAA • was chosen Top Drawer Soccer National Player of the Week on October 4, 2011 • was named to the Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week three times during the 2011 season (August 30, October 4, October 11) • preseason All-America selection by Soccer America • tapped for Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy Watch List • named by Top Drawer Soccer To Its Preseason Top 100 list for 2011 • started 19 games for the Tar Heels, missing only the Clemson game when she was training with the National Team • had three goals and six assists on the season for 12 points • was the fifth leading scorer on the team and tied for third on the squad in assists • scored goals against Texas A&M, NC State and UCF • tied the NCAA third round game against UCF with a goal in the final minutes • had two assists against William & Mary in NCAA first round • also had assists against UNCG, Florida State, Miami and Baylor.
Freshman Season (2010)
Soccer America Freshman of the Year • 2010 NSCAA first-team All-America honoree • second-team Soccer America MVP selection • named first-team All-ACC • chosen as ACC Defensive Player of the Year, the first freshman ever to win the award and the second Tar Heel in a row to be so named • also tapped for the ACC All-Freshman Team • semifinalist for the 2010 Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy • first-team Top Drawer Soccer All-Rookie Team choice • captured first-team Soccer America All-Freshman Team honors • named to Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week on November 15, 2010 • named to All-Tournament Team at the 2010 ACC Tournament • copped honors on first-team NSCAA All-Southeast Region squad • started all 23 games she played in, totaling 1,929 minutes • played the entire way 18 times • team's third-leading scorer with 26 points • was third in goals with nine and fourth in assists with eight • scored six goals in the final five games of the campaign • had first career point on game-winning assist in win at San Diego State • scored twice versus Boston College September 23 for her first career goals • had game-winner in 99th minute of 1-0 win at Virginia • had eight-game point streak at end of season • had two assists versus Clemson and one each versus Maryland and Duke • finished regular season with assist on Courtney Jones' game-winner and then her own insurance goal in 2-0 win at Wake Forest • had a goal and an assist in ACC Tournament quarterfinals versus Virginia Tech • had four NCAA Tournament goals, one each against Jackson State (game-winner) and Notre Dame • scored two goals in 3-1 win over James Madison in NCAA second round • shot 30 percent to lead the team including 60 percent on goal rate.
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Member of the 2012 U.S. U20 National Team competing in the U20 World Cup in Japan in August and September • has competed for U.S. youth national and ODP region 1 teams in six different countries • was a member of the U20 National Team in 2010 • trained with the team for much of the year and competed with the team at the qualifying tournament in Guatemala and the World Cup in Germany • in 2009, she was part of the U18 pool and the U20 team • was a member of the U17 team in 2008, starting at left back for the U.S. World Cup team that year • was one of the most dependable players on that squad • scored the game-winning goal against Mexico in the 92nd minute at the qualifying tournament in Trinidad and Tobago to send the U.S. to the first ever U17 World Cup • won the silver medal at the U17 World Cup in New Zealand, playing every minute of every game • member of the Region 1 ODP Team for five years • competed with the Eastern New York ODP team for six years • plays her club soccer with the Albertson Fury 91, which won the NY state cup championship in 2009 • chosen a 2008 & 2009 NSCAA/adidas youth All-America.
Graduated in June 2010 from South Side High School in Rockville Centre, N.Y. • member of Principal's Advisory Board in high school • four-year starter on the pitch at forward and midfield • captain of the team in 2008 & 2009 • led team to New York state championships in 2006, 2007 and 2009 • she missed the 2008 campaign due to National Team commitments • the squads she played on in '07 and '09 went undefeated and were ranked No. 1 in the nation by the NSCAA • her team lost only two games in three seasons • in her three years, she scored 46 goals and had 35 assists • in the 2009 state championship game, she scored four goals and had a hat trick in the first 20 minutes of the match • 2009 NSCAA, ESPNRise and Parade Magazine high school All-America • New York Gatorade high school player of the year in 2009 • as a senior, she was named Newsday Long Island player of the year, Nassau County Class A player of the year, New York Sportswriters Class A player of the year, BigAppleSoccer.com youth player of the year and the winner of the Mike Clark Award for the best all-around athlete in Nassau County • first-team All-State and All-Long Island in 2006, '07 and '09.
Crystal Alyssia Dunn is the daughter of Vincent and Rhonda Dunn • was born July 2, 1992 in New Hyde Park, N.Y. • sociology major • ran a summer soccer camp for inner city children in Queens, N.Y.
Crystal Dunn's Career Statistics
Year GP/GS SH G A PTS
2010 23/23 30 9 8 26
2011 19/19 32 3 6 12
Totals 42/42 62 12 14 38
Date Opponent G A PTS
9/12/2010 San Diego State 0 1 1
9/17/2010 Middle Ten. State 0 1 1
9/23/2010 Boston College 2 0 4
10/8/2010 Virginia 1 0 2
10/21/2010 Clemson 0 2 2
10/24/2010 Maryland 0 1 1
10/28/2010 Duke 0 1 1
10/31/2010 Wake Forest 1 1 3
11/3/2010 Virginia Tech (ACC) 1 1 3
11/12/2010 Jackson State (NCAA) 1 0 2
11/20/2010 Notre Dame (NCAA) 1 0 2
8/19/2011 UNC Greensboro 0 1 1
8/11/2011 Texas A&M 1 0 2
8/16/2011 NC State 1 0 2
8/29/2011 Florida State 0 1 1
10/2/2011 Miami 0 1 1
11/12/2011 Wm. & Mary (NCAA) 0 2 2
11/18/2011 Baylor (NCAA) 0 1 1
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IF YOU like carrots, here's a great recipe. It's easy to prepare and healthy. My mother made it every holiday, using either regular or golden raisins. This was one of the first recipes I tried on my husband when we were newlyweds. He was skeptical because he didn't like raisins, but now this is one of his favorite salads. -Marlene Reilly, Nescopeck, Pennsylvania
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- 1/2 pound carrots, shredded
- 1/3 cup golden raisins
- 1/3 cup plain yogurt
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon honey
- Dash ground cinnamon, optional
- Lettuce leaves
- Combine the carrots, raisins, yogurt, mayonnaise, honey and cinnamon if desired in a small bowl. Chill for several hours or overnight. Serve in a lettuce-lined bowl. Yield: 2 servings.
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Nanotechnology bears a multitude of possibilities to systematically and specifically treat many well-characterized and currently untreatable diseases. Despite this, there exist multiple barriers to its development including challenges related to delivery in the human body.
Justin Hanes, a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, highlighted some of the exciting advances that his laboratory has developed to overcoming these challenges. According to Hanes, one of the primary functions of nanobiotechnology is to enable a therapy to be delivered to a specific location and only remain there for as long as it is needed. He likened this idea to applying weed poison to a rose garden. You only want to apply a little bit of poison to a targeted area, not flood the whole garden. Unfortunately conventional cancer chemotherapy is like flooding the garden, but only 1 percent of the drug reaches the tumor. Hanes stated the goal of his work is to flip that so that all but 1 percent of the drug makes it to the site of delivery.
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i have a new zine about called Hello Kitties about the cats i encounter in my hood:
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Dr. Andrew Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History in Harvard University's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, where he studies ancient life, its impacts on the environment, and how the environment, in turn, shaped the evolution of life. In recognition of the 200th anniversary of Charles' Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the first printing of his book, "On the Origin of Species", the American Society for Microbiology has invited Dr. Knoll to deliver the opening lecture, titled "Microbes and Earth History," at the society's general meeting in Philadelphia this year.
Before the dinosaurs, before trees and leaves, before trilobites, there were microbes. Vast, slimy layers of them covered the rocks and peppered the seas of the harsh, alien planet we now call Earth. Those slimy cells were our ancestors, and they played a defining role in changing that once-barren moonscape into the world we see today: a planet covered with diverse, striving life, topped by an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Dr. Knoll says he puts on his paleontologist's hat and studies the fossil record to learn more about this ancient life, then he dons his geochemist's hat to reconstruct Earth's environmental history from the chemical signatures he finds in ancient sedimentary rocks. He weaves these two stories together to figure out how life has transformed the planet and how the planet has influenced the course of evolution.
In this interview, I talk with Dr. Knoll about what early earth must have looked like, his involvement with the Mars rover project, and how intelligent design concepts may well belong in high school curricula, but not in the context of science class.
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By Joe Brewin
Arsène Wenger admits the London derby at Stamford Bridge will be a yardstick for his team's progress this season.
After a disappointing start to the campaign the Gunners have won seven of their last eight matches to climb the Premier League table.
Wenger believes Saturday's game against Chelsea will tell him how far his revitalised side has come - and he is relishing the challenge.
"First of all a win would of course install us among the top teams in the league," he said. "But what is very important is that it would strengthen the belief inside the team and would continue our progress.
"I feel we are getting stronger and Chelsea is a big test - a test of strength, a test of resolve, a test of commitment - and that is what we expect tomorrow."
Arsenal's last trip to a top-four club ended with a 8-2 defeat at Old Trafford. Last week Manchester United were humbled 6-1 by Manchester City on the same ground but Wenger is reading nothing into either result.
"Big results have no meaning in football because it is always explained by special circumstances," he said.
"Manchester United conceded two goals in the last two minutes. We conceded four goals in the last 20 minutes when we were down to 10 men and had played three days earlier at Udinese.
"When you're down to 10 men do you say 'OK we concede as little as possible' or do you continue chase the game knowing that you run the risk of conceding more goals?
"Manchester City had maybe seven shots on target, they scored six goals - that would happen once in five years."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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lol not the 10% brain crap again...
How many movies can you milk from that BS?
Actually, I had only watched the trailer until the line came up...
This is it? That's the entire story? How many mil did they pour into that pos? Is Morgan Freeman broke? Do you really need so much kitch cgi to convey the story, or let me rephrase, does it add anything at all?
I am laughing my ass of right now, wtf, lol.
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Stay frosty.
Think I've seen this before. Except it was called Limitless.
From the title and thumbnail I thought this was gonna be a biopic on the gritty underworld behind I Love Lucy. I'm super disappointed.


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Fortinet news alert around 'Detecting the five zero-day behaviours to fight APTs'
Security professionals agree that the safe approach to examining potential APTs is with high-performance on-board and cloud-based sandboxing capabilities as part of a unified security strategy. But how are these potential zero-day exploits identified? Fortinet has compiled the following list of the top five initial exploit and exfiltration behaviours most likely to result in a […]Read more


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Hi, I'd like to get better quality from my photography and have just read up about the different Canon lenses available. I have an entry level Canon 1100D camera which I really like, I have an EFS 18-55mm lens supplied with the camera and an EF 75-300mm lens which I bought seperately. I would now like to buy a fishey lens and would like some advice on which one to buy. I am looking for quality, but don't have a big budget. When looking for new lenses I would like to buy the deluxe models but would these be wasted on my 1100D entry level camera or would it be better to buy a better quality camera and lenses? Hopefully I can find some reasonably priced second hand lenses for my existing camera. All advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Following the widespread panning of Apple's new Google Maps replacement for iOS 6, reports have emerged that Apple is buying up talent from Google's mapping department itself.
Apple's new Maps app for iOS 6 has been universally derided, and it's generally listed as a major weak point for the new iPhone 5. Indeed, if you're looking for a little Apple-inflected sympathy from us, you've come to the wrong place.
Make no mistake, the new Maps app is a considerable and somewhat embarrassing step back from Google Maps.
So it's interesting to note that Apple agrees. Not in so many words, of course, but as always in the world of major tech companies, a recruitment policy speaks a thousand words.
According to Tech Crunch, Apple has hired recruiters to target people who have worked on Google Maps. "Apple is pursuing a strategy of luring away Google Maps employees who helped develop the search giant's product on contract," says the report.
In fact it's the rather rudimentary state of Apple's new Maps app that is causing such talent to say yes. Google Maps has reached a point where it's pretty solid and only needs periodic updates.
The site's source - a contractor who worked on Google Maps - has revealed that many of his co-workers at Google have been tempted by Apple's persuasive recruiters and handsome wages.
He also believes that "Apple has a lot of catching up to do if it wants to build a robust mapping platform to counter Google Maps," which will involve getting "its own 5 million miles of street view data" - one of the big areas in which Google Maps rules supreme.
Of course, as the source points out, Apple can afford to throw as much money at the problem as it takes, so don't be surprised if it creates a genuine Google Maps rival over the next couple of years.


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Whether the United States should use military action against Syria for its use of chemical weapons drew contrasting responses from a panel of policy experts at an Institute of Politics Forum, "Attacking Syria; Yes or No? How do you vote?," at the Harvard Kennedy School Wednesday night.
Moderator Graham Allison asked the four panelists whether, if they were members of Congress, they would vote yes or no to authorize military force. Marisa Porges, an international security program fellow at the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, said a targeted military strike would be neither timely nor proportionate.
"If we're really looking to do something, we need to look toward humanitarian aid to Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, to the internally and externally displaced refugees, and to aggressively push for a diplomatic solution that would make an end to the greater problem, which is not just the 1,400 people killed in this chemical attack but the 100,00 that have died more broadly in the war," Porges said.
Longtime foreign service officer and current professor of international relations at Harvard Kennedy School Nicholas Burns said the United States' approach to Syria should comprise limited air strikes designed to degrade President Assad's military capacity. Military action, however, must be followed by a diplomatic campaign with Russia, Turkey, and the Middle East states and by a massive international relief operation for Syrian refugees as well as efforts to engineer a cease fire in that war.
Offering a sharply different perspective on the Obama administration's handling of Syria, historian Niall Ferguson, a professor of history at Harvard, drew a portrait of a president irreparably damaged by his lack of a Middle East strategy. While Ferguson said he would have voted yes as a member of Congress, it didn't surprise him that so few people were willing to step up and support what was proposed.
"The United States should have intervened earlier and I think our aim should have been regime change," said Ferguson. "Now, it is much too late and the consequences of this dithering are already deeply tragic not just for Syria, but for the people in all these neighboring countries that have been deeply destabilized by this."
Former Kennedy School dean Joseph S. Nye said he supports a limited strike, but that the United States should not be involved in a regime change. "The Arab countries are going through a set of revolutions which are theirs and the more we interfere with it, the worse we're going to make it." The question now, said Nye, is "can we make lemonade out of this lemon."
In response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent proposal for Syria to hand over control of its chemical weapons, Burns said the United States must be "as tough as nails." The United States must insist on a short time frame for identifying the chemical weapons sites, the transfer of weapons to a reputable organization, and an enforcement mechanism. Reneging on this deal, concedes Burns, is very probable, in which case, "we may have to walk away from a Security Council resolution."
With Putin's proposal on the table, Nye said, Obama should now invoke chapter six of the U.N. Charter in requiring the Syrian president to give up his weapons. The objectives, Nye said, should be to limit those weapons and deter their use. "Obama should play his hand in such a way that doesn't allow somebody to restrain him, whether it's the U.N. or the Congress."
Nye also noted the contrast in U.S. public opinion to military intervention in the Middle East from just a little over a decade ago when Congress voted to intervene in two Middle East countries. "What a remarkable shift," he said. "Today Obama is being pulled back."
At the Forum's conclusion, moderator Graham Allison, former dean of the Kennedy School, the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, and director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, asked the Forum audience for its vote on whether as members of Congress they would vote to intervene. Using clickers handed out at the beginning of the event, 45 percent of the audience cast their vote in favor of military action and 55 percent voted no. The event was co-sponsored by The Middle East Initiative and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
For more information, see the center's new resource page on Syria.
(From L to R) Graham Allison (moderator), Belfer Center director; R. Nicholas Burns; The Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations; Marisa Porges, international security program fellow; Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard; and Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor.
Photo Credit: Rose Lincoln
Moderator Graham Allison asked the four panelists whether, if they were members of Congress, they would vote yes or no to authorize military force.


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As British troops moved into a village recently "liberated" from the Taliban, they were shocked to discover most of the villagers believe government forces, particularly the police, are much worse than living under Taliban rule. Mohammad Gul, an elder in the village of Pakela, which is currently being taken over by British troops, told a reporter for al-Aribilya, "the police would stop people driving on motorcycles, beat them, and take their money.' He pointed to two compounds where pre-teen children had been abducted by the police and used for the local practice of "bachabazi" or having sex with young boys. He also claimed boys working in the fields were seized and taken to the compound to be raped. Mohammad Rasul, an elderly farmer, who son was killed by a Taliban roadside bob, told reporters, "we were happy (after the Taliban arrived."
Perhaps, these are a few malcontent voices and one should not pay much attention to their complaints about local police and the Afghanistan government, but their comments sound very common to those who are knowledgeable about the Vietnam war. If the villagers are right, then the "Obama surge" may in the future be termed the "surge" that restored Republicans to power.


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Chess and art have shared a close relationship virtually since the invention of the game.
Throughout the long and rich history of chess, the three-dimensional playing pieces have provided artists and craftsmen with seemingly endless opportunities for creative interpretation and expression, resulting in a tremendous diversity of forms ranging from the representational to the abstract. Within the standardized arrangement of thirty-two pieces on the square grid of the game board, artists have found innumerable ways to challenge expectations with innovative approaches, transforming this timeless and universal game into something novel and even unconventional. While the material aspects of chess, such as the pieces and board, have traditionally been the focus of artistic expression, a number of more recent artists have directed their creative energies not toward the game as a static arrangement of objects, but toward the strategic nature of the chess match as a complex mental process.
OUT OF THE BOX: Artists Play Chess is an exploration of artworks that consider chess both at the formal level and at the level of actual play.
Comprising a wide breadth of media, these artworks demonstrate an integration of chess that goes beyond the visual, incorporating elements of play or strategy that invite the viewer to reflect on the game's intricate operations. The theme of this exhibition will remind many of the chess-inspired strategic maneuvers of one of the twentieth century's most respected and controversial artists, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), whose intellectual depth, ironic wit, and playful spirit are echoed in the similarly challenging, irreverent, and quixotic works in this gallery. These artworks demonstrate how the nature of the game complicates and enriches static media such as sculpture, or time-based media such as video, and draws the spectator into the work in a way that is truly inimitable to chess.
Works Featured in the Exhibition
Tom Friedman. Untitled, 2005.
Upon first glance, native Saint Louisan Tom Friedman's chess set is as baffling as it is charming, as the spectator almost immediately recognizes the principal dilemma: that no two pieces on the board are the same. Without the ability to identify the type and available moves of each piece on the board, the set teeters on the very brink of functionality, a tension that is typical of Friedman's work. A clever assemblage of found objects and meticulously crafted items possessing qualities that are both universally known and intensely personal, the wall-mounted chess-piece cases, table, and stump-like chairs fit snugly into their severely geometric wooden box, which presents a minimalist solidity and sobriety that contrasts strongly with its whimsical contents. The diminutive sculptural pieces recall the themes and concepts that Friedman has explored throughout his career, particularly the increasing intersections between art and everyday consumer culture and the rapidly diminishing distinctions between public and private in contemporary life.
Barbara Kruger. Untitled (Do you feel comfortable losing?), 2006.
Famous for her singular style that developed out of her background as a graphic designer and art director in the magazine publishing industry, Barbara Kruger uses the conventional interactivity of a chess match as a metaphor for the complex exchanges that take place during verbal communication. The basic concept of this chess set can be understood as a visualization of the theories of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, particularly his use of the terms langue ("language") and parole ("speech") to distinguish between the impersonality of the written word and the individuality and subtlety of spoken language. When a piece is moved into a position, a microchip is triggered that randomly plays through a small speaker one of over one hundred possible statements, which are also printed on the set's flight-case-style box in her signature Futura Bold Oblique typeface. With each match promising a unique exchange of phrases, the "conversation" mirrors not only the virtually limitless number of possible move sequences in a chess match, but also the vast number—and seemingly random interactions—of slogans, headlines, and sound bites seen and heard every day in the mass media.
Liliya Lifánova. Anatomy is Destiny: The Wardrobe, Game in Waiting, 2009.
The title Anatomy is Destiny, a direct reference to the psycho-theory of Sigmund Freud, invokes the highly controversial theories that form the foundation of the psychosexual development of young boys and girls known as the Oedipus complex. This work consists of two components: the installation of garments called The Wardrobe: Game in Waiting seen here, and the full-scale performance in which performers don the garments and execute the moves of an imaginary chess match between Marcel Duchamp and his infamous female alter ego Rrose Sélavy that was envisioned by the artist Arman in 1972. Inspired by a diverse array of historical military fashions and constructed of linen backed with cotton, each garment in the wardrobe was designed by Lifánova to restrict the movement of the performer in such a way that approximates the respective movements of that piece on the game board. The performance of Anatomy is Destiny seen in the video was presented at the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in Chicago on September 11, 2009.
The World Chess Hall of Fame presented Liliya Lifánova's performance art piece, Anatomy is Destiny, at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, February 15, 2012.
Yoko Ono. Play It by Trust (Roskilde Version), 2002.
Starkly beautiful in its austere appearance and its unflinchingly straightforward concept, artist and longtime peace activist Yoko Ono's all-white chess set Play It by Trust marries the spare, geometric lines of Minimalism with the intimate, playful interactivity of the games produced by the members of Fluxus, an international avant-garde movement with which Ono was associated in the 1960s. Originally conceived as the White Chess Set in 1966, Play It by Trust was born of a tumultuous era characterized by the Cold War tensions of the nuclear arms race, the military conflict in Vietnam, and the struggle for civil rights in the United States. As the players are forced into ever-greater reliance on each other to identify which piece belongs to which player as the game progresses, Ono elegantly recontextualizes a game that is normally thought of as a microcosmic allegory of war, emphasizing collaboration over competition and empathy over opposition.
Diana Thater. Georges Koltanowski vs. Marcel Duchamp, Paris, 1929 (Played by Ellen Simon and Cybelle Tondu), 2010.
Diana Thater's belief that abstraction can exist in representational moving images is effectively demonstrated in her video installation Georges Koltanowski vs. Marcel Duchamp, Paris, 1929. Displayed over four monitors arranged to form a rudimentary grid that reiterates the rigid geometry of the chessboard, the disembodied hands nimbly execute the predetermined moves that, over a period of extended viewing, blur into subtly hypnotic rhythms. While Thater is customarily known for using brilliant, highly saturated colors in her work, her chess-inspired videos are dominated by the stark black-and-white presentation of the board and the classically inspired Staunton chessmen familiar to novices and tournament players alike. Having already re-enacted such iconic games as the so-called Immortal Game between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky in 1851 and Garry Kasparov's famous bout with the chess computer Deep Junior in 2003, Thater chose to commemorate artist-turned-chess master Marcel Duchamp's stunning upset of the Belgian champion Georges Koltanowski in only fifteen moves in 1929, which can perhaps be interpreted as an argument for the power of imagination and creativity over technical mastery.
Gavin Turk. The Mechanical Turk, 2008.
British artist Gavin Turk draws on the postmodern view of identity as fluid and unstable, recasting himself as the diverse contingent of artists, cultural icons, and media darlings (Andy Warhol, Elvis Presley, Che Guevara, Sid Vicious, and Joseph Beuys, among others) whose towering presences comprise his understanding of celebrity. In The Mechanical Turk, Turk reinvents himself as his erstwhile namesake, the Mechanical Turk or the Automaton Chess Player, which, following its introduction in 1770, achieved tremendous fame in Europe and the United States until it was exposed as a fraud in the 1820s. Able to defeat even the most skilled players thanks to a host of chess masters who secretly operated the machine from within, the Mechanical Turk was also capable of performing the knight's tour, an extremely difficult chess puzzle in which the player moves a knight in a sequence such that each square on the board is occupied once without repeat. Executing the knight's tour in the video with machine-like precision and efficiency, Turk becomes the embodiment of our dual fascination with artificial intelligence and theatrical showmanship.
The Mechanical Turk, or the Automaton Chess Player
While not truly artificial intelligence, the "automaton" remains the ancestor not only of such celebrated chess computers as Deep Blue and Deep Junior, but also of all game-playing computers, including the trivia mastermind Watson recently featured on Jeopardy!. Devised by the Hungarian inventor Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen, the Mechanical Turk rose to instantaneous renown after it was introduced at the Viennese court in 1770. Using a clever system of false doors, dummy mechanisms, and visual misdirection, von Kempelen was able to convincingly show the "inner-workings" of the machine without revealing the chess master hidden inside, who operated the Turk through an elaborate arrangement of levers and magnets. The Turk racked up a substantial list of victories against some of the best players in Europe before the death of von Kempelen in 1804, after which it was sold to Johann Maelzel, who continued to tour the Turk throughout Europe and later the United States. Not surprisingly, many were skeptical of the authenticity of the Turk upon its debut, writing sensational essays revealing what they believed to be the machine's actual operations, the most famous of which was penned by Edgar Allen Poe in 1836. The true secret of the Turk was finally revealed by the son of its last owner in an article published three years after the machine was destroyed in a fire in Philadelphia in 1854.
Guido van der Werve. Number Twelve: Variations on a Theme, 2009.
In order to play his lushly orchestrated composition Number Twelve, artist and composer Guido van der Werve designed his own instrument, a hybrid chessboard and piano. When a player makes a move, the piece is pressed into the chosen square, triggering a hammer to strike a string as with a traditional piano. The orchestration was built around a chess game composed by Russian Grandmaster Leonid Yudasin, which also functions as a musical score for the chess players. Another component of the work is a film that begins with van der Werve and Yudasin playing the chess piano with a chamber orchestra at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City, followed by a series of aerial shots of the artist amidst landscapes as lush and lyrical as their musical accompaniment. Each photograph presented here is a still from the film, with a chess diagram below the smaller photos to indicate the position in the score that accompanies the image. In the Romantic tradition, van der Werve's interweaving of music, film, and photograph straddles the personal and the universal, uniting the directness of musical expressivity with the epic totality of nature.
OUT OF THE BOX: Artists Play Chess is curated by Dr. Bradley Bailey, assistant professor of modern and contemporary art history at Saint Louis University and coauthor of the book Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess (Readymade Press; Distributed Art Publishers). In 2009 he curated the exhibition "Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master" for the Saint Louis University Museum of Art, and was co-curator of "Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess" at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art in New York.
Generous support for OUT OF THE BOX: Artists Play Chess was provided by Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield and the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam.
Special thanks to our lenders Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield; Liliya Lifánova; Luhring Augustine, New York; RS&A Ltd., London; Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam; and Marc Foxx, Los Angeles.
As part of OUT OF THE BOX: Artists Play Chess, the World Chess Hall of Fame presents an Audio Tour! Enjoy!
3/2012: ARTnews — Pawn Stars by Ivy Cooper (Review)
11/22/11: STLMag.com — Out of the Box: Artists Play Chess at the World Chess Hall of Fame by Francesca Wilmott (Review)
11/9/11: ChessBase News — World Chess Hall of Fame opens in St. Louis, by Laura High
10/20/11: Riverfront Times — Out of the Box: Artists Play Chess by Jessica Baran (Review)
10/10/11: ArtDaily.org — World Chess Hall of Fame Exhibition Explores Relationship between Art and Chess
9/12/11: STL Beacon — World Chess Hall of Fame plans new strategy with opening in St. Louis by Jonathan Ernst
9/9/11: St Louis Magazine — Best Chess in the West: Rex Sinquefield's World Chess Hall of Fame Opens in CWE, by Byron Kerman
9/8/11: Temporary Art Review — Fall Out Guide by James McAnally
9/1/11: Riverfront Times — Check Out This Move by Alison Sieloff
9/2011: St. Louis Magazine — Endgame: St. Louis Moves Towards Chess Domination. by Rosalind Early
Out of the Box: Artists Play Chess Exhibition Brochure
Number Twelve: Variations on a Theme
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 – 6:00 p.m.
Contemporary, Dutch artist Guido van der Werve and pianist Matthew Bengtson perform on the artist's one-of-a-kind chess piano, accompanied by members of the St. Louis Symphony, conducted by Ward Stare. A collaboration with the World Chess Hall of Fame, Saint Louis Art Museum, and the St. Louis Symphony.
The World Chess Hall of Fame is proud to collaborate with the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Saint Louis Art Museum and the St. Louis Symphony on this project. In conjunction with the presentation of Guido van der Werve's Number Twelve: Variations on a Theme, (the king's gambit accepted, the number of stars in the sky, and why a piano can't be tuned, or waiting for an earthquake), the World Chess Hall of Fame has collaborated with the Saint Louis Art Museum and the St. Louis Symphony.
Curated by Tricia Y. Paik, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art, Guido van der Werve: Number Twelve: Variations on a Theme is on view at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Gallery 301 from September 9, 2011 through January 8, 2012. This 40-minute film uses the chess piano to create three musical movements accompanied by a string ensemble. For more information about Number Twelve: Variations on a Theme at the Saint Louis Art Museum, visit http://www.slam.org/Exhibitions/nmsvanderwerve.php.
The live performance Number Twelve: Chess Piano in Three Movements was performed at the World Chess Hall of Fame on September 13, 2011 at 6:00 pm featuring Guido van der Werve, Matthew Bengtson and the St. Louis Symphony.
A large-scale version of Yoko Ono's Play it By Trust (Garden Version), 2011 was on exhibit from September 9 – October 9, 2011 at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis as part of their Front Room Series.
Anatomy is Destiny
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 – 6:00 p.m.
On the evening of February 15, 2012, the World Chess Hall of Fame presented Liliya Lifánova's performance art piece Anatomy is Destiny at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, marking the closing of the World Chess Hall of Fame's inaugural exhibitions OUT OF THE BOX: Artists Play Chess and Chess Masterpieces: Highlights from the Dr. George and Vivian Dean Collection. In the performance, 32 dancers reenacted an imaginary chess match between the artist and chess master Marcel Duchamp and his female alter ego Rrose Sélavy.
Photos by S. Carmody Photography


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