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This "Today I F'd Up" subReddit post is courtesy of a woman who indulged in a solo night of casual drinking and forgot to pee before going to bed.
At one point during the middle of the night in her unconscious state, Original Poster (OP) "laurpr2" made a trip to the bathroom – or somewhere she thought was the proper facility.
Let's just say: "urine danger, girl."
She found out the hard way that her socks sufficiently soaked up her business better than any toilet paper during the T.P. apocalypse.
For starters, lets' get acquainted with our tipsy heroine.
"Two things you need to know about me: I'm a pretty neat person, and I'm a woman."
"After a long week, I decided I wanted to spend my Friday night at home with a glass of wine to unwind, then go to bed absurdly early to catch up on some much-needed sleep."
But the OP realized she had to abandon her initial plan and settle for the next best thing.
"Unfortunately, I'd forgotten I have no wine, so I settled for the only alcohol on hand: vodka."
"I ended up drinking too much (don't worry, I balanced it out with a large glass of water, don't want a hangover) and stumbling to bed around 8."
There was a disturbance in the wee hours of the morning thanks to a ruckus outside, and the OP resorted to waking up for the day.
"Come 2:09am, my frat boy neighbors get home from whatever bar they were at and yell at each other in the street until their friend's Uber arrives like we don't live in a quiet residential area full of apartment buildings."
"I lay in bed for an hour before coming to terms with the fact that I'm not going to be able to fall back asleep, and my Saturday is starting much earlier than I'd planned. (The time I got up isn't really relevant to the story, but I just wanted to take this opportunity to tell my neighbors, from the bottom of my heart, to go f'k themselves.)"
Then she made a peculiar discovery.
"I'm about to get dressed when I notice my sock drawer is open, which immediately strikes me as weird since 1) I don't leave drawers open and 2) I haven't worn socks this week, and that's literally all that's in there."
"Also, one pair has been pulled out of the row (yes, I fold my socks) and is just laying on top."
You know those slow realization moments where you acknowledge something that is never good?
This is one of those.
"I pick it up."
"It's wet."
"All the socks are wet."
"And despite all the drinking I did last night, I don't have to pee."
"Horrified, I realized that at some point in the night, I must have gotten up, pulled open my sock drawer, sat down, and pissed on my socks. And then wiped."
The OP's handy-dandy sleep-tracking app – which is a thing – confirmed she was literally piss-drunk.
"I checked the sleep-tracking app I use, and sure enough, a couple hours after I went to bed there's a recording that confirms my theory. (Also, I was talking and singing nonsense words to myself. In my sleep. Like an insane person.)"
"So here I am, starting off my weekend with a drawer full of urine-soaked socks, and the sun isn't even up."
Redditors assured her that it happens to the best of us and provided some examples
"Haha - happens more often than you think."
"Also after some heavy drinking my brother was woken up by his girlfriend punching him and screaming at him. That's when he realized he was peeing on her CD tower."
"He'd been looking for an excuse to break up with her, but the incident seemed to do the trick. He still jokes that he 'pissed her off' that night."
"Also have a friend who knew a girl that brought her boyfriend home to meet her parents. Much later, after they were engaged, the girl's parents told her that during that first visit they were woken up by the boyfriend sleep walking into their room, peeing on their clothes hamper and sleep walking back to bed."
"The parents hadn't said anything because they liked the boyfriend and didn't want to embarrass him." – iujohn3
"Did nearly the exact same thing in college although my interaction went more like this: Ex-gf and I get very drunk, go to bed."
"I drunkenly get up to go to the bathroom. Don't move more than 2 feet from the bed and start pulling down my sweats. Ex wakes up and says 'No! You're not in the bathroom go use the toilet!'"
"So I proceed to concede, walk over to the dresser, open the sock drawer, piss in it, close it, and fumble for a flush lever that isn't there before coming back to bed."
"Ex just rolled over and let me discover it in the morning. I remember none of this. You're not alone." – TheIronTongue
"I had a friend who was a pretty high functioning alcoholic and he was also the DM of our dnd campaign that was hosted weekly at me and my boyfriend at the times apartment."
"This one session hes mid sentence explaining some new obstacle, stops, turns around and walks across the living room to our couch, pulls his pants down to his ankles, and just starts pissing all over the couch."
"I started screaming and everyone was laughing, but i didn't want to touch him and get pee on me."
"He finishes and then lays down on the pee soaked couch with his pants still down, and falls asleep." – rschultz1794
"I think that's called a drinking problem. I had to wake my ex multiple times from him peeing in strange places.. but generally only on my stuff.. it was nice." – sweetbabygreen
"Don't worry, i woke up naked on the sofa one morning after i had drank a questionable amount of alcohol. Walked over to the sink to get some water, stood in a puddle."
"Turns out i walked downstairs naked, pissed all over the dish washer, then went back to sleep on the sofa butt naked." – LucasRH
Can you really be pissed at someone who piddles on your stuff when they're technically asleep?
"For a little while in college I was in a 3-person dorm, I'll never forget waking up to 'Chris, you're pissing on our food!' and seeing my other roommate had stumbled in drunk, opened the mini fridge and started peeing in it like a urinal." – thechort7
On the other hand, what a relief!
"For a second I was worried that the frat guys came in your socks, I'm glad it was just you peeing on your socks :)" – HadidTheHyder
These urinators had shocking consequences and wet appliances
"About 30 years ago when we shared a house my brother wandered into my bedroom at about 3 am and began pissing in a corner."
"It took me several seconds too long to realize what he was doing and before I could shout a warning / abuse at him there was a huge bang as my power amplifier blew up. Suffice to say it wasn't just his wallet that hurt the next day :)" – Jonny7Tenths
"Yeah...I've done this too. Unfortunately I didn't ruin my socks, but my ps4 instead. And I apparently knocked my tv over and broke the screen. It was a very upsetting morning." – garlic_naaaannn
"My first experience like this was waking up to go pee at the same time my alarm clock went off and I pissed on it until a small fire broke out."
"Don't remember anything until my wife woke me up by screaming at this drunken idiot. Glad I don't live alone." – HowMuchDidIDrink
"Similar story here, but I did it into the fan vent at the very back of my PC tower. I destroyed a brand new GTX1060 and have been having random crashes since. (Edit - my friends still jokingly call me "The Computer Whizz")" – guntherslunt
Mistaken identity was the downfall for this poor trash can and hamper.
"I agree that this happens, I had a party where a bunch of friends from out of town came to stay. We all proceeded to get really drunk."
"I crashed in my bed a little early and in the morning I woke up to a lot of looks from everyone. I was informed that I had gotten up in my robe and when I found the bathroom was occupied decided to take a piss in my garbage can a few feet away from everyone else who was going to sleep."
"Apparently I said something along the lines of 'I'm going to be in trouble in the morning hehe' and passed back out. In my defense the garbage can was white just like the toilet lol."
"Thankfully my fiance and friends were very gracious and cleaned up after me. I was on the receiving end of jokes for a few years but otherwise no harm done." – Jbollocks131
"DW I've used a hamper as a toilette once, didn't work out well either." – superjudgebunny
Wet socks are better than soaked clothes.
"Omfg you just reminded me...so my freshman roommate in college had a friend from home visit her, they went out to bars and I went somewhere else with my friends."
"When my friends and I got back, we went into the back room to change, and find my roommate squatting over her friend's OPEN suitcase peeing in it."
"Also woke up the next morning to the friend wondering why all her clothes were wet. I didn't say anything because I didn't want to embarrass my roommate." – random_222
In life, we know sh*t happens.


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I know this might sound like a sickening thing to do, but try this exercise:
Go to the SMH website and type "obama" into their search engine.
Then have a look at the headlines it returns. You can try the same thing with "mccain".
Notice anything about them? Am I the only person to think that the SMH is tilting a certain way?

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ESPN aired a Heisman Trophy preview ahead of the 2021 college football season, and the predictions came flying in.
For the Thursday night special, new ESPN analyst Robert Griffin III, a former Heisman Trophy winner from Baylor, shared his thoughts on who could land the most prestigious award in the sport.
Griffin joined two other members of the Heisman fraternity, Andre Ware and Desmond Howard, to give their predictions and it was Griffin's who generated the most buzz on social media. Rather than going with one of the favorites like Spencer Rattler of Oklahoma, Alabama's Bryce Young, Clemson's DJ Uiagalelei, or JT Daniels of Georgia, Griffin predicted the winner of the 2021 Heisman Trophy will be Ole Miss quarterback Marr Coral.
"I'm going with the most fun to watch gunslinger in all of college football: Matt Corral," Griffin said. "I think he's going to fix his turnover issues and he's going to go out and lead Ole Miss to being a serious contender in the College Football Playoff."
New college football analyst for ESPN, @RGIII, has picked Ole Miss QB Matt Corral to win the Heisman Trophy this season.
He also noted Ole Miss is a team to watch for the College Football Playoff. @OleMissFB | @corral_matt pic.twitter.com/SWXhrePdV0
— Brad Logan (@BradLoganCOTE) August 27, 2021
Last year, Coral threw for 3,337 yards, 29 touchdowns, and 14 interceptions.
We will find out over the next couple of months whether Griffin's outside-of-the-box prediction pays off.


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Landrum Works Out to Stay Healthy, Maintain Positive Mental Health
In addition to being a dancer for most of her life, junior Jane Landrum uses running and hiking to stay both physically and mentally healthy. She participated in the Little Rock Half Marathon and enjoys running because of its numerous health benefits.
"One of my friends and I decided to start running just because we heard it's good for cardiovascular health," Landrum said. "We wanted to do two miles every single day, and we started doing that to build up our mileage and decided to do the half marathon because then we would get the medal and everything."
One of the most important parts of health in Landrum's life is dance. She has been dancing since she was seven years old and currently dances at the Arkansas Academy of Dance.
"Dance has always kept me in shape. I always have some exercise that I do. It has been a constant thing that I have kept up with, and I get to see my friends there. It's a destresser," Landrum said.
With her family, Landrum goes on hikes, including long-distance hikes and backpacking, which she does with her dad. Eventually, she would like to get into rock climbing.
"I've hiked trails in the Ozarks and there was one ridge where people had their bouldering mats set up, and they were climbing. It looked like so much fun," Landrum said.
When it comes to mental health, Landrum uses exercise to feel better in general. Working out and being active helps people's mental health much like physical health. When working out, bodies release more endorphins which help combat stress and ultimately make people feel more positive and happier.
"After a workout, I always feel a lot better. I might not always enjoy it while I'm doing it, but afterwards I feel like I have accomplished something," Landrum said. "I don't really get a runner's high unless it's after a race, and then I'm super excited and happy and I just want to do it again."
One of the most important aspects of overall health is diet and the types of food that people choose to eat.
"I do eat healthy, but I'm trying to work on eating more protein. I do mind what I eat. Normally, if I eat a lot of fast food, I don't feel good, and I feel guilty about it," Landrum said.
In Arkansas, there are multiple places to hike and enjoy nature while working on being healthier and more active. Landrum recommends Two Rivers Park and the Big Dam Bridge, as well as the Pinnacle Mountain area for biking. The Ozarks are also a great area of the state for hiking and climbing.
Each person has a unique activity that ensures their personal health and keeps them active. This will not always be the same for everyone, but it is important to find that activity to stay healthy.
"Just find what you like and do it. Don't force yourself into running if you don't even like running. There are other options, and I would say don't do it for others or for the aesthetic," Landrum said. "Don't do it because you want to look good; do it because it makes you feel good."
Since school has been closed, Landrum has found alternative ways to work out, despite not being able to exercise as much as she normally would.
"I try to go on a daily run or walk and really like doing HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) workouts on YouTube," Landrum said, "Starting this week we are going to try virtual ballet classes."
Landrum has found that the situation right now is stressful, but it is also a nice break from being so busy.
"Being out of school has been sort of frustrating," Landrum said. "I do like having a more flexible schedule, though, and being able to spend time with family."


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Intended learning outcomes: Produce an overview on distribution planning, distribution inventory, and distribution resource planning (DRP II). Disclose the concept of (integrated) resource management. Explain bottleneck capacity as well as the five focusing steps in the theory of constraints (TOC) approach.
Distribution planning is one component of the ERP concept that goes beyond MRP II.
Distribution planning covers the planning activities associated with site and location planning, transportation, warehousing, inventory levels, materials handling, order administration, industrial packaging, data processing, and communications networks to support distribution ([APIC16], sequence of tasks modified).
Distribution planning determines the distribution network structure, often a multi-echelon structure (see Section 3.1.3). Inventory management in this chain can be handled in principle in the same way that it is for the chain from raw material to final product, via the various structure levels. A central task of distribution planning is resource management in the distribution system, in particular inventory management.
Distribution inventory is inventory, usually spare parts and finished goods, located in the distribution system (e.g., in warehouses and in-transit between warehouses and the consumer [APIC16]). The terms pipeline inventory, or pipeline stock, are used simultaneously.[note 507]
Distribution resource planning (DRP II) is distribution planning of the key resources contained in a distribution system: warehouse space, workforce, money, trucks, freight cars, etc. ([APIC16]).
The term DRP II developed as an extension of DRP (distribution requirements planning; see Section 12.2.1), which stands for a deterministic method of management of distribution inventory. The term DRP II was coined in analogy to the term MRP II, an extension of MRP. The techniques of management of distribution inventory do not differ essentially from inventory management in production and procurement. For this reason, they will not be treated in a separate section. However, distribution control is examined in Section 15.4. There you will find a description of important distribution planning tasks and results, such as transport planning and scheduling.
Resource management is, according to [APIC16], the effective identification, planning, scheduling, execution, and control of all organizational resources to produce a good or service.
Today, the ordered sequence of the three classical tasks as shown in Figure 18.104.22.168 — materials management, time management and scheduling, and capacity management — is used mainly for teaching purposes only. Originally, this sequence came about because materials management takes temporal priority in the planning process with non-time-critical production or procurement. In the classical MRP II concept, the tasks are differentiated so sharply that in materials management, there is no routing sheet. For materials management, there exists only the attribute lead-time offset, which is assigned to each item. This perspective also made concessions to the very limited processing capacity of computers of the day, when the materials management planning process of large firms (the so-called MRP run) often took an entire weekend. It took that much time again to then complete the planning process for scheduling and capacity management (the so-called CRP run). This meant that it had to be possible to perform this process separately from materials management.
When capacities are important, however, all tasks must be performed in an integrated way as resource management, in parallel fashion, in dependency upon each other. This is the case with more recent concepts, including the lean/JIT, the variant- and the processor-oriented concept, as well as advanced planning and scheduling (APS) software. Moreover, limitations on computer capacity no longer exist. There is also another impetus for the (integrated) resource management approach, namely, the more in-depth consideration of throughput and bottlenecks and — finally and more comprehensively — the theory of constraints:
Throughput is the rate at which the (production) system generates a desired output. It is expressed for a given time period (cf. [APIC16]).
A bottleneck, or a bottleneck capacity, is a work center where the required capacity is greater than the available capacity. Cf. [APIC16].
A high capacity utilization tends to result in lower costs (see here Fig. 18.104.22.168). However, well-utilized capacity can also represent a bottleneck. Whenever capacity is not available to work, it directly reduces the throughput of the company and thus its output, its performance. Therefore, effective bottleneck management (and also the TOC approach) proposes:
- Utilization of the bottlenecked work center during breaks and with the greatest possible overtime. In addition, buffer stores, both downstream and upstream of the work center, should buffer the bottlenecked work center. On the one hand, this allows maximum utilization, because the bottlenecked work center does not have to wait for delayed delivery of materials. On the other hand, if downtime occurs in the bottlenecked work center, this will not directly affect the fill rate. In addition, through some increased administrative effort, various customer orders for the same item can be produced together at the bottleneck, which increases batch size, so that machine setup time and thus load are reduced.
- Production at non-bottlenecked work centers only when there are actual customer orders. Work centers should not make to stock — thus keeping work in process low. The reason for this is that too-early order releases do not improve capacity utilization; as a result, the work center simply does not work at a later time. In addition, goods will pile up that are not immediately required, implying carrying cost.
The theory of constraints (TOC) is an approach to integrated resource management that addresses the problem of bottlenecks in a logistics system, or — more generally — the factors that limit or constrain the throughput in the system.
The TOC was developed in the 1980s and early 1990s in North America by E. M. Goldratt ([GoCo14]). The basic premise of a theory views the planning problem in logistics and operations management as a problem-solving area limited by constraints.
A constraint is any element or factor that prevents a system from achieving a higher level of performance with respect to its objective ([APIC16]).
Constraints can take the form of limited capacity, a customer requirement such as quantity or due date, or the availability of a material, for example. They can also be managerial.
The concept of a problem-solving area limited by constraints originated in operations research, which also supplies algorithms for solutions. However, the difficulty often does not lie in the algorithms, but rather in the constrained problem area itself, which may not allow for reasonable solutions. This is the point where the TOC attempts to exploit and expand the problem-solving area, successively and in targeted fashion, according to the five focusing steps shown in Figure 126.96.36.199.
The concept of a solution space limited by constraints originated in operations research, which also supplies algorithms for solutions. However, the difficulty often does not lie in the algorithms, but rather in the constrained problem area itself, which may not allow for reasonable solutions. This is the point where the TOC attempts to exploit and expand the solution space, successively and in targeted fashion, according to the five focusing steps shown in Figure 18.104.22.168. A production control technique that goes with TOC is called drum-buffer-rope [note 508]. See Section 14.3.3.
Fig. 188.8.131.52 The five focusing steps in the theory of constraints (TOC) approach.
Course section 5.1: Subsections and their intended learning outcomes
5.1 Business Processes and Tasks in Planning & Control
Intended learning outcomes: Describe the MRP II concept and its planning hierarchy. Explain the part processes and tasks in long-term, medium-term planning as well as in short-term planning & control. Present the reference model of processes and tasks in planning & control. Produce an overview beyond MRP II: DRP II, integrated resource management, and the "theory of constraints".
5.1.1 The MRP II Concept and Its Planning Hierarchy
Intended learning outcomes: Explain the business processes in logistics and operations management of an enterprise, structured according to temporal range. Describe the different degrees of detail in planning. Disclose the aim of data management.
5.1.2 Part Processes and Tasks in Long-Term and Medium-Term Planning
Intended learning outcomes: Present long-term planning, also called master planning. Differentiate between master planning and master scheduling. Disclose medium-term planning & control, also called detailed planning and scheduling. Produce an overview on bid processing, customer blanket order, sales and operations planning, (detailed) resource requirements planning, requests for quotations, blanket order processing, and order proposal.
5.1.3 Part Processes and Tasks in Short-Term Planning & Control
Intended learning outcomes: Present in detail short-term planning & control, also called execution and control of operations. Produce an overview on order release, order coordination, order monitoring and order checking, delivery, job-order costing, and billing.
5.1.4 Priority Planning and a Reference Model of Processes and Tasks in Planning & Control
Intended learning outcomes: Explain the manufacturing planning & control processes and priority planning within the temporal ranges in the MRP II concept. Describe the reference model of business processes and tasks in planning & control. Differentiate between materials management, time management and scheduling, and capacity management. Produce an overview on inventory management and control, and master data.
5.1.5 Beyond MRP II: DRP II, Integrated Resource Management, and the "Theory of Constraints"
Intended learning outcomes: Produce an overview on distribution planning, distribution inventory, and distribution resource planning (DRP II). Disclose the concept of (integrated) resource management. Explain bottleneck capacity as well as the five focusing steps in the theory of constraints (TOC) approach.


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FARMINGTON – University of Maine at Farmington's Emery Community Art Center is welcoming a new director this semester, with plenty of events lined up for the coming month.
Ann Bartges is the ECAC's newest director, taking over for Jayne Decker at the beginning of the year. Decker, who has helped organize and operate the multi-purpose art gallery and performance space since its construction in 2011, generated great energy and momentum for the ECAC, according to Bartges. When provided with the opportunity to become the new director, Bartges said, she was excited to accept.
"It's a good way to connect with a larger community," Bartges said of the ECAC. "There's a lot of artistic energy in Farmington."
Bartges has been teaching with the Visual Arts Department at UMF since 2014. After getting her undergraduate degree at Alfred University, Bartges went on to earn a Masters in Fine Art from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan in 2014. Along the way, she participated in exhibitions ranging from Denmark to Australia, working as a resident artist at institutes in Berlin, Paris, Denmark, Chicago and Vermont. While she has a background in ceramics, her more recent work has been video- and photo-based installations.
Speaking outside of "Rough Drafts," a collection of faculty pieces on display at the ECAC, Bartges said that her new challenge was to take the energy Decker had garnered and use it to bring new voices to the space. She said that she wanted to further connect with the local community and its artists, as well as bring in work from other communities, such as Portland's vibrant art scene.
"This is really a special space," Bartges said of the ECAC, noting that it could support anything from a traditional art gallery to New Media presentations to performances.
One tradition she does intend to continue is hosting the annual Mt. Blue High School art show – a particular challenge due to not only Decker's absence, but also the retirements of MBHS art teachers Roger Bisaillon and Deborah Farley. Bartges said that she had already reached out to the high school's art program to let them know that the ECAC intended to continue the practice.
The faculty art show – the aforementioned Rough Drafts – is shown every three or four years at UMF. It is hosted at both ECAC and the UMF Art Gallery, directed by Assistant Professor Sarah Maline. The gallery is hosting the other elements of Rough Drafts: video, projections, drawings and prints. An orange line crosses the campus, connecting the two spaces.
ECAC provides space for Rough Drafts' larger pieces: an arching ladder bent backwards, for example, or Patch(work) Quilt, an impressive collection of roofing materials, tar paper and carpeting created by Jesse Potts. "I can't believe we got a house in here," Bartges told one viewer.
A future opening, and another example of Bartges' desire to connect the ECAC with new communities, is "7500 Miles; An Internal Turn." Curated by Parisa Ghadeki and Mahsa Soroudi, the exhibit will feature the works of a number of Iranian artists and will seek to look beyond some of the themes that commonly appear in Iranian collections. Bartges hopes the show provides a connection between Farmington viewers and something they may not have experienced before.
"The idea of art as a window is one I'm really interested in," Bartges said. The 7500 Miles exhibit will open this fall.
Rough Drafts will run until March 9. The hours of operation at ECAC are 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The UMF Art Gallery is open from Tuesday through Sunday, 12 p.m. until 4 p.m.


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There's useless knowledge, and then there's famously useless knowledge.
The memorization of pi ranks highly in the category of famously useless knowledge. It's got its own day (March 14), it has books that consist of recitations of the digits in its irrational and transcendental self… in other words, it goes on forever and doesn't repeat digit groupings. It's a useful constant in physics and math. The number itself has significant value.
The memorization of it? Not so much.
Nevertheless, there are records kept and challenges met. There's Akira Haraguchi, who claims to have memorized it to more than 100,000 digits but who has not done so for certification. There's the official world record holder Suresh Kumar Sharma, who made it through 70,030 digits in 2015.
And there is are yearly competitions on Pi day.
This all makes sense to people who like to work toward a challenge. Unlike many challenges, the greatest physical danger in reciting pi is that you'll fall asleep while doing it… most of the recitations take over ten straight hours. But it's a lot of effort with comparatively little payoff.
Unless you're making a song about it.
Question of the night, apropos to the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday… what's your favorite type of pie?


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Sitting at a table in a central London bar, one of two men, who was expensively dressed with a big gold watch on his wrist, asked the other if he would like some of the tea which he had bought earlier.
He accepted the offer and took a couple of sips, which tasted odd, and afterwards they were joined by another man with a sombre demeanour and the conversation turned to a meeting the group were due to have the next day with an international risk management company in the capital.
Soon, the expensively dressed man's family arrived and he said he had to leave - his group was due to watch a football match between Arsenal and CSKA Moscow that evening.
The man who sipped the odd tasting tea was former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko.
Just over three weeks after the meeting at the Pine Bar at the Millennium Hotel, he was dead, poisoned by radioactive polonium.
What was described as a nuclear attack on British soil unleashed an international scandal, the consequences of which are still reverberating today.
In 2016, a 10-year UK public inquiry concluded that in all probability the two men he met, Andrey Lugavoy and Dmitri Kovtun, were Russian agents and in all likelihood assassinated Mr Litvinenko with the knowledge of Russian President, Vladimir Putin.
In doing so they effectively sent a clear message to anyone who fancied following Mr Litvinenko and defecting to the West – they would be tracked down and killed using the most unpleasant poisons the Soviets had ever managed to create.
Both men and Russia have always denied culpability.
But the poisoning left hundreds of others affected – also contaminated by the highly radioactive polonium that had been used in the killing.
Among those also left reeling from the effects of the deadly substance was Derek Conlon, a piano player in the bar of the Millennium Hotel, whose life, by chance, became inextricably linked to that of Mr Litvinenko and whose story is now being told in a four-part Sky News podcast called Polonium and the Piano Player.
The placing into the tea pot of the liquid that ended the Russian's life badly affected Mr Conlon and impacted hundreds more. It marked the end of a journey that is believed to have started in one of the most secretive places in Russia.
The poison's arrival in London then set off a chain reaction that ended with dozens of locations being sealed off in one of the biggest health emergencies the capital has ever seen, as scientists in protective suits were sent in to conduct tests for alpha particle emissions in restaurants, bars, bus stops and all over one of the busiest cities in the world.
The story is said to have started in Sarov, a place so secretive it can only be entered with prior permission of the Russian authorities.
Located about 230 miles (370km) east of Moscow, nestling in flat woodland so dense it is impossible to see more than a few metres through the silver birch and pine trees, it is famous as one of the country's closed towns.
It's said that barbed wire fences surround the entire area and all visitors, even Russians, have to submit to checks as they arrive.
The reason for the security is Sarov is the headquarters of the former Soviet Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics.
It is thought that the polonium-210 which killed Alexander Litvinenko came from the facility, which is known in the West under the acronym VNIIEF.
The rare radioactive metal is manufactured at a nuclear reactor elsewhere by bombarding bismuth-209 with neutrons, but has to be extracted in the laboratories at VNIIEF.
It is used commercially in miniscule amounts in devices that remove static from sensitive environments that must be kept dust free, like silicon chip factories.
But, due to its radioactive volatility, it is extremely poisonous, with just one gram said to be enough to kill 50 million people and make another 50 million sick.
Its ionising radiation attacks soft tissue, destroying the cells, so that, in time, as it is spreads throughout the body it results in painful multiple organ failure.
Although it is a solid metal at room temperature, it is said to be soluble in water and so can be transported as a liquid.
As it decays, it breaks down with half its atoms switching to a different element every 140 days. Eventually, it turns into lead.
It is likely the polonium came from Sarov, the inquiry into the death of Mr Litvinenko heard, possibly transported to Moscow along the railway, which is regularly inspected by guards, or flown to a military base in or around the capital from the small airport that is only used by government aircraft.
What exactly happened next remains a mystery.
What is known is that there were three probable plotted attempts to poison the Russian dissident, with the third succeeding.
On each occasion, polonium must have been carried by either Lugovoy or Kovtun around the centre of one of the biggest cities in the world - London.
One theory relating to how it could have got to London was relayed to the inquiry, which heard claims that several weeks before the poisoning on 1 November 2006, a shipment of radioactive material was met in Austria, carried by a Chechen "freelancer" called Sultan, after being dispatched by the FSB, Russia's successor spy service to the KGB.
The material, which the claimant thought to be polonium, was said to have been intended to be used in the "neutralisation" of members of Chechen criminal groups.
The head of the inquiry, Sir Robert Owen, did not discount the evidence but said there was not enough certainty to confirm the events definitely happened.
What is known is that, ahead of the first attempted poisoning, Lugovoy and Kovtun arrived in London on a Russian Transaero flight, having come direct from Moscow.
Police in their subsequent inquiry were never able to test the Transaero aircraft, tail number EI-DDK 734, for radiation.
As the investigation got under way, the plane was mysteriously withdrawn from service. A request was made to check the plane but Russian authorities replied that they had carried out the tests and they were negative.
The aircraft then never again re-entered British airspace.
Whether the polonium was carried on that plane cannot be determined and the inquiry was not able to find out, but, again, what is known is that within a short time of arriving in London, Lugovoy and Kovtun met Mr Litvinenko and made their first attempt to kill him using the polonium.
At the time, Mr Litvinenko was working as a consultant in the security industry, regularly compiling what is known as "due diligence" reports into the activities of firms other companies want to do business with.
One of the firms he worked for was a company called Erinys UK, based in Mayfair.
In carrying out his work, Mr Litvinenko often employed other external consultants in Russia, and that was how he came to reconnect with Lugovoy, and to trust him sufficiently to let him get close, having originally met him while they both worked for the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky in the 1990s.
On 16 October 2006, about two and a half hours after Lugovoy and Kovtun had checked into their hotel in Shaftesbury Avenue, Mr Litvinenko had a meeting at Erinys and took along both men to discuss a project that was being worked on.
Up until that point, he had not met Kovtun. But Mr Litvinenko told police the Russian would, later that day, at another meeting, demonstrate his potential value by unveiling a device that listened in to telephone conversations.
The meetings went ahead as planned, with a few teas and coffees being served, business was discussed and actions agreed.
It was not until after police began their investigations that people in protective equipment visited the office of Erinys and discovered a radiation reading so high it was concluded polonium must have been spilled on the table cloth.
After the meeting at Erinys, Mr Litvinenko and his two Russian associates went to a branch of Itsu nearby. Secondary contamination of radiation was also found at the seats where they would have sat.
That night, Mr Litvinenko was sick. But he did not worsen.
It was later concluded that he had been poisoned at the meeting at Erinys but had a dose 100 times smaller than the one that killed him.
He didn't suspect anything and met up with the pair the next day to visit another security consultancy, which is where Kovtun demonstrated his device.
Lugovoy and Kovtun, meanwhile, had changed hotels, switching from the Best Western in Shaftesbury Avenue to the Parkes Hotel in Knightsbridge, despite having a room booked at the Best Western for two nights.
Forensic experts later found radioactivity readings so high they concluded polonium had been poured down the sink of Lugovoy's en-suite at the Best Western.
Lugovoy and Kovtun returned to Moscow on another Transaero aircraft, registration number EI-DNM, on 18 October. British authorities managed to get access to that plane later and discovered secondary contamination in the seats they had been sitting in.
Exactly a week later, Lugovoy returned to London on his own, late at night, on a British Airways flight and checked into the Sheraton Hotel in Park Lane, central London, just after midnight on 26 October.
While he was in London, Lugovoy met Mr Litvinenko twice on subsequent days, in the Palm Court bar at the Sheraton.
Whether he used those meetings to try to slip some polonium into Mr Litvinenko's tea isn't known, but what is known is that he had polonium at the hotel with him.
Scientists found the highest level of contamination in the whole inquiry in his room at the Sheraton.
A government expert from the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston found massive readings in the bathroom bin and on items of hotel laundry, which led the QCs at the inquiry to suggest there had been an accidental spillage of the radioactive liquid in the bathroom and a subsequent attempt to clean it up.
Evidence of the sloppiness of what may have occurred is indicated by high radioactivity readings being found on the wall under the bathroom window, the bathroom floor, the wall under the sink, the toilet seat, the floor of the room and massive readings on the entrance door to the room.
On 28 October, Lugovoy flew back to Moscow on another BA flight. Both BA planes were tested and secondary contamination was found. It did not provide enough information to determine whether polonium had been carried on the plane on the way there.
At the time, the liquid ban had been in place since the previous August, so it is unlikely any polonium would have been carried in hand luggage.
But, as security checks had been carried out at the Russian end, if Lugovoy or Kovtun had been conveying the poison into the UK from Moscow, could any luggage they were carrying it in have been slipped past security on the way out? Especially if, as the inquiry concluded, both were probably acting under the direction of Russian state security.
On their next joint visit to London, Lugovoy and Kovtun were successful in their attempt to assassinate Mr Litvinenko.
Again, Lugovoy arrived in London on a BA flight from Moscow.
This time he travelled with his family, including his wife, his eight-year-old son, his 19-year-old daughter and one of his business partners.
Earlier the same day, on 31 October 2006, another of his daughters, aged 20, had arrived with her boyfriend and all subsequently met up at the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square, in London's Mayfair district, which they had planned on visiting since 10 October, at the latest, when the hotel had been booked.
The family had come because they planned to attend the Arsenal-CSKA Moscow match at the Emirates Stadium the following night.
Lugovoy was a keen fan of CSKA. It was when he visited London in 2004 to see the team play Chelsea that he had reacquainted himself with Mr Litvinenko.
Kovtun arrived separately, on a Germanwings flight from Hamburg into Gatwick.
He is thought to have gone via Hamburg because he needed to refresh his residency permit, which allowed him to freely visit Germany.
He had obtained this after being granted asylum in West Germany, having deserted from the Russian military when he was told he would be posted from East Germany, which he started to make his home, to Chechnya.
While in East Germany he had married a German woman and they both left the East, before the unification of the country, and claimed asylum in Hamburg in 1992.
The marriage didn't last but Kovtun and his ex-wife stayed in touch and it was with her that he stayed on one of the nights before he travelled to London.
Whether it was Lugovoy or Kovtun who carried a new batch of poison to the UK capital on the third occasion, or whether it was there when they arrived, is also not certain but comments made by Kovtun to a contact he met up with in Hamburg suggest it might have been transported by him.
After attending the Hamburg Aliens' Registration Office with his ex-wife, he left her and met up with a friend whom the inquiry called D3.
He had known D3 since the pair worked together at a Hamburg restaurant in the mid-1990s and they had stayed friends.
While they were walking from a restaurant to a casino on their night out, D3 later told police that Kovtun had mentioned Mr Litvinenko, called him a traitor, asked whether he knew a chef in London and said he "had a very expensive poison and needed a cook to administer it to Litvinenko… in Litvinenko's food or drink".
D3 thought he was joking but Kovtun told him it was "meant to set an example".
Still not believing he was serious, D3 told Kovtun he knew that a former chef at the restaurant where they had both worked was now in London and in the following days, Kovtun contacted others until he had the chef's number.
When he arrived in London from Hamburg, he contacted the chef and asked to meet. As it turned out, the chef was too busy to meet up and didn't call back offering a time to meet until after the polonium had been administered.
As Kovtun was preparing to fly in to Gatwick from Hamburg, Lugovoy arranged to meet Mr Litvinenko the following day, on 1 November 2006.
Over the course of that day, there were several calls between Lugovoy and Mr Litvinenko until a final one, after the dissident was already in central London, telling him to come quickly so they could meet and prepare for a meeting the following day with a business contact.
At 4pm, Mr Litvinenko arrived at the Pine Bar at the Millennium Hotel and met with Kovtun and Lugovoy, a meeting after which he would become sick, soon be rushed to Barnet Hospital, end up in isolation in University College Hospital, London, and then, at 8.51pm on 23 November 2006, be pronounced dead.
It was not until after Mr Litvinenko began to tell his story to police on 18 November, having realised he had been poisoned, that checks for radioactivity were made.
Starting on 24 November, scientists began sealing off locations that Mr Litvinenko told police he had visited so they could be tested.
Checked on the first day of testing was the Itsu sushi bar Mr Litvinenko had visited with Lugovoy and Kovtun after their Erinys meeting and which the dissident visited again with a contact just before the fateful meeting in the Pine Bar.
Experts found traces of radiation on the seats where Lugovoy, Kovtun and Mr Litvinenko had sat on 16 October, but none in the seats he and his contact sat in on 1 November.
Next, high readings were found in the offices of Erinys, before the investigation began to spread out as more and more places were tested.
In the meantime, the Lugovoys had been to see the football and then, together with Kovtun, returned home to Russia on another BA flight.
The plane too was subsequently tested and contamination found, including in the seats where all the family members sat, but the highest reading was where Kovtun was seated.
The hotel rooms where the Russians were staying were tested and secondary contamination was found in Lugovoy's room. The highest reading was found in a sediment trap below the plughole in Kovtun's bathroom.
In total, hundreds of readings were taken from 64 locations in England and Germany.
Secondary contamination was found all over central London, in a series of offices, restaurants and bars where Lugovoy, Kovtun and Mr Litvinenko had visited, including the offices of a firm called CPL, Boris Berezovsky's office and the Pescatori restaurant off Piccadilly where both the Russian killers had dinner with a contact.
With so much highly specialised testing taking place in one of the busiest cities in the world, keeping a lid on the investigation rapidly became impossible.
Almost all the newspapers led on the story on 21 November after it emerged the former Soviet agent, who at the time had been looking into the murder of anti-Kremlin journalist Anna Politkovskaya, had been poisoned.
But, when locations began to be sealed off, the story grew and grew.
Health protection staff reported working around the clock to identify sites.
About 400 people were part of a team that had to close them to the public, allow testing to take place and then clean them up afterwards.
They estimated that some 1,500 people were at risk of exposure to the polonium, which was at high levels in multiple places.
In the end, 17 people were actually found to have been contaminated, including the piano player in the Pine Bar, Derek Conlon, who is said to have received the third highest dose.
To find out what happened to him, listen to the Polonium and the Piano Player podcasts from today.
Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun have never been tried for killing their target, but were identified as being responsible by Sir Robert Owen, in one of the biggest public inquiries of recent years, which heard from around 80 witnesses.
Lugovoy, now aged 53, had a brief stay in hospital soon after returning. He then became an MP in the aftermath of the scandal.
Kovtun, meanwhile, also became sick but recovered. His ex-wife's mother, who he spoke to after Mr Litvinenko's death, said Kovtun told her "he had probably got some of the poison which killed Litvinenko". He said word for word, 'Those a******** have probably poisoned us all'."
Sir Robert concluded it was unlikely they knew they were handling polonium, although they would have known they were using a powerful poison.
Both have continued to deny the killing.
After the inquiry delivered its verdict, Lugovoy said: "The results of the investigation... yet again confirm London's anti-Russian position, its blinkeredness and the unwillingness of the English to establish the true reason of Litvinenko's death."
Kovtun said: "I am not involved in Litvinenko's death. As for the outcome of the public inquiry that has been published in London, Robert Owen could not have reached any other conclusions based upon the falsified and fabricated evidence."
Both men have now had their foreign assets frozen by the US and UK governments, but are free to go about as they please in Russia.
Words and digital production: Philip Whiteside, international news reporter
Graphics: Johnathan Toolan, designer, and Matthew Simpson, digital art director
Pictures: Reuters; Getty; Shutterstock; Sergei Chirikov/EPA/Shutterstock; Google; Met Police
Picture research: Dan Daukes, picture editor


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Fixing Follow Up Failure
Mary sells Juan a $20 ebook on how to deal with his son's ADHD.
Juan loves the book because it's shown him several techniques to help his son without resorting to pharmaceuticals. Now Juan wants more – he wants personal coaching from someone he trusts so that he can do everything possible for his son. He loves his son dearly and money is no object.
But Mary doesn't offer coaching. Juan finds another ADHD expert and purchases a $1,000 coaching program for 6 months.
Mary may have made $20, but she just lost $6,000.
But that couldn't happen to you, right?
Hopefully you have at least one premium product to offer your customers and raving fans. After all, it takes a great deal of time and even money to win over a new customer these days. Once you have them, of course you're not going to be silly enough to sell them a $20 or $50 product and then forget them.
Here's what I see time and time again. A new marketer puts all of his or her time and energy into making a great product. The product sells for less than a hundred bucks.
They make sales. They now have paying customers. And what do they do next?
They promote similarly priced affiliate products to their buyers. Sure, low-priced affiliate products are great and you should definitely promote them if you want to, but you're leaving some serious money on the table if you do only that. Your customers have learned to trust YOUR work. They want more of your stuff, and some of them are willing to pay big $$$ for it. So why not give them that chance?
Let's go back to Mary and Juan. Juan purchases Mary's low-ticket offer and he's happy. Mary then systematically follows up with Juan, sending him tips and offering her help. Juan sees that Mary not only knows her stuff; she's also offering to be of further assistance. Maybe Mary offers a free 15-minute coaching session. Juan eagerly makes an appointment. Now they are on the phone or Skype together, and Juan quickly realizes Mary can help him. She offers her coaching program, and Juan signs up on the spot.
Okay, maybe this is too much for you at this point in time. Maybe the thought of doing one-on-one calls freaks you out just a little bit. You were hoping you could stay semi-anonymous on the internet and still make good money.
I'll let you in on a secret; the more personal you get with your customers, the more money they will spend with you.
This means you've got to let them in. Show them your personality, let them hear your voice and even see your face (unless you're in witness protection, in which case, forget this advice.)
Get personal and you will make more money. But I digress; let's get back to fixing follow up failure.
For now, let's say you don't have a higher priced program to offer. You don't have a course or personal coaching or any of that. That's still no excuse for not systematically nudging your customers towards higher priced products.
Do a little searching and you'll find plenty of high ticket items in almost any niche that you can promote. Find something that you really, truly believe in and sign up to become an affiliate.
Now ask yourself what you would have to know to purchase this high-priced product yourself. How would a marketer guide you from buying a low-ticket item all the way up to purchasing this $1,000 or $5,000 program?
Here's what I might suggest:
Create a lead magnet that perfectly compliments the high-ticket item. Maybe it's a $2,000 program on how to become a social media marketing expert and hire yourself out to other businesses. Your lead magnet might be, "How to earn $100,00 a year being a social media manager."
On the back of this free offer, have a paid offer that teaches them more about social media marketing. It might be a general overview of several social media channels and how they work, or a more in-depth course on just one social media channel.
You see how this is working…
You're targeting the exact people who want to spend that $2,000 on the program. You're setting yourself up as an expert on social media marketing (even if you're not an expert) by giving great content.
Now start following up. Show them how great it is to be a social media marketing manager or consultant. Give them stories of other people who have succeeded doing this. Give them tips on what to do (but not on how to do it.)
Always be offering that big-ticket item, but not overtly. More of a, "when you're ready" kind of thing. Then once every so often, make a big push complete with bonuses.
If you're up for it, offer free 15-minute consultations. Your main goal during these consultations is to find out what they want. If the $2,000 program will meet their needs, tell them. Explain that if you were to teach them one-on-one everything in that program, you would have to charge 5 times as much.
And while you're doing all of this, you can still be promoting the $20 items and the $97 items, too.
But most of all, be their trusted source and let them know that if they are serious about their future, then they need that course.
This is so simple… I don't know why every marketer doesn't do it.
Let's look at how to make $100,000, assuming you're an affiliate earning 50% commission:
- Sell 20,000 products $10
- Sell 2,000 products at $100
- Sell 200 products at $1,000
- Sell 100 products at $2,000
- Sell 20 products at $10,000
And if you're selling your own products, the numbers look like this:
- Sell 10,000 products $10
- Sell 1,000 products at $100
- Sell 100 products at $1,000
- Sell 50 products at $2,000
- Sell 10 products at $10,000
Another way to look at it:
Over the course of a year you sell 1,000 products at $20.
If you do nothing else, you've earned $20,000.
But let's say you also follow up and sell 100 products at $200.
You've just doubled your income, without getting a single extra customer.
And you follow up some more, and you sell 10 products at $2,000.
Now instead of a $20,000 year, you've had a $60,000 year.
Your results will vary. In my experience, these numbers are super conservative, but it all depends on a lot of different things.
But I can tell you this: You won't sell a single high-ticket item if you don't follow up with your customers and make the offer.
One more thing – in the examples above I used the traditional funnel method of starting with a low-priced product and working up to a high-priced product.
But I've also seen marketers give away a LOT of stuff and only sell the high-ticket items. They don't bother with the $20 offers, and yet they sell plenty of the $1,000 + products.
This can work in a variety of ways. The key is to realize that you CAN sell high ticket items. It's just a matter of getting comfortable with the idea.
I've heard from plenty of marketers over the years who say, "Yeah, but my list won't buy high ticket items." That's rubbish. Every list has a variety of people who will spend anywhere from $0 to $100,000 or more.
But what every list doesn't have is a list owner who is willing to make the big offers.
Follow up with your subscribers and customers. Find out what they want. Find the solution that will give them what they need; it's often a high-ticket item because the low-ticket items are really just band-aids.
And then offer it to them and reap the results.
You got this. Now go do it.
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Columbus Announces High-Grade Gold Discovery at Maripa Project, French Guiana
Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 31st, 2019. Columbus Gold Corp. (CGT: TSX, CGTFF: OTCQX) ("Columbus") is pleased to announce a high-grade gold discovery at the Maripa gold project ("Maripa") located in French Guiana. Columbus has an option to acquire up to a 70% interest in Maripa.
- Prospecting by Columbus identified numerous artisanal mine workings 800 metres to the south of the past producing Changement mine, located within the northern part of the Maripa property;
- Sampling of stockpiles extracted from the mine workings returned 15 assay values above 1 g/t gold, including 7 high-grade values of 115.70, 42.60, 15.51, 83.48, 14.70, 68.43 and 29.57 g/t gold; and
- The newly identified gold mineralised zone is interpreted to be distinct from the Changement mine and remains completely unexplored.
Rock Lefrançois, President & CEO of Columbus, commented"Field work in the Filon Dron and Changement areas in the last few months has already uncovered two new gold mineralised structures with high-grade potential. The initial work confirms that the local geological setting is highly prospective and underexplored".
Following the field work on the Filon Dron gold zone (news release dated September 26, 2019), prospecting shifted in late September to the north in the vicinity of the past producing Changement mine. Both Filon Dron and Changement, two of the five partially drill-defined gold zones at Maripa, were prioritised for comprehensive evaluation, extension drilling and resource definition.
Field investigation of microrelief anomalies recorded by the airborne Lidar topographic survey identified numerous abandoned mine shafts and adits excavated by illegal artisanal miners, located some 800 metres to the south of the Changement mine main pit. Stockpiles of rock extracted from the mine workings consist of mineralised quartz-pyrite veins and mafic volcanic wall rock. Assay results received for 32 select samples of material taken from the stockpiles returned 15 values above 1 g/t gold, including 7 high-grade values of 115.70, 42.60, 15.51, 83.48, 14.70, 68.43 and 29.57 g/t gold.
Field observations from outcrops in proximity to the mine workings indicate that the gold mineralised vein system dips moderately to the east, opposite to the moderate west dips recognised at the Changement mine. The observations lead the Company to believe that this newly uncovered gold mineralised zone is distinct from the Changement mine and remains completely unexplored.
Field work has now moved to the area of the past producing Changement mine. Numerous old trenches were resampled and assay results are anticipated next week.
Maripa project and Changement compilation maps are available at the following links:
Maripa: www.columbusgold.com/i/nr/2019-10-31-map-maripa.pdf
Changement: www.columbusgold.com/i/nr/2019-10-31-map-changement.pdf
Complete gold assay results of the 32 samples are available at the following link:
About the Changement Gold Zone
The Changement area was subject to placer gold mining from 1859 to 1950. All creeks peripheral to the deposit have been worked over time. Underground hard rock mining was recorded as early as 1880 and the deposit was exploited at surface by three small open pits from 1985 to 1996. Total declared historical placer and hard rock gold production is estimated to be approximately 100,000 ounces.
The Changement gold mineralisation is localised within two subparallel north-northwest striking, moderately west dipping, shear zones of 10 to 25 metres in width cutting Paramaca Formation mafic volcano-sedimentary sequences. Gold mineralisation is associated with quartz veining and sulfides, mainly as pyrite.
The deposit has been traced by drilling to shallow depths over a lateral distance of 1,250 metres. A total of 63 core holes (4,500 metres) were drilled by the French geological survey (BRGM, 1978-1998) and IAMGOLD (2002-2004).
About the Maripa Gold Project
Columbus entered into an agreement in July 2018 with IAMGOLD Corporation ("IAMGOLD") to acquire up to a 70% interest in Maripa. Maripa adjoins to the south the Boulanger project being developed by Reunion Gold, where a recent high-grade gold discovery was reported.
Maripa is located in eastern French Guiana along a paved national road, approximately 50 kilometres south of the capital city of Cayenne. The project is comprised of up to five (5) contiguous exploration permits that cover an area of 120 square kilometres.
Maripa is situated along the southern border of a regional deformation zone known as the Northern Guiana Trough (NGT), which can be traced across northern French Guiana into neighboring Suriname. The NGT is recognized as a highly favorable geological setting for gold mineralisation. The geological setting at Maripa is similar IAMGOLD's world-class Rosebel gold mine (15.2 Moz) in Suriname, highlighted by a faulted contact between volcanic assemblages of the Paramaca Formation and younger pull-apart basin coarse detrital sediments of the Upper Detrital Unit (UDU or Rosebel Formation). The presence of thick sections of UDU sediments in the Maripa area attest to an extensional structural regime favorable to hydrothermal activity and associated gold mineralisation.
Past exploration at Maripa includes 134 core holes, for a total of 9,000 metres, which partially defined five (5) broad gold zones, namely Changement, Filon Dron, Maripa Sud-Est, Rhyodacite and Filon Scieur. Drilling was limited to shallow depths within the oxidized saprolite layer with all five prospects returning drill intersections of economic interest with demonstrated potential for expansion and mineral resource delineation including: 4.3 g/t gold over 36 metres; 12.4 g/t gold over 10.5 metres; 1.8 g/t gold over 34.5 metres, 2.5 g/t gold over 25.5 metres and 2.2 g/t gold over 21.5 metres.
Technical Info and Qualified Person
A total of 32 select rock samples from mine stockpiles were collected by Columbus geologists during prospecting. Individual samples were sealed in heavy duty cellophane plastic bags and placed by batch in sealed polypropylene bags and delivered by Columbus personnel to the Filab-Amsud depot in Cayenne for trucking to the Filab-Amsud laboratory in Paramaribo, Suriname, an accredited laboratory for quality procedures according to ISO 9001(2008) and ISO/IEC 17025. Samples were assayed for gold by the fire-assay method using an atomic absorption finish on a 50-gram pulp split.
A quality assurance and quality control program (QA/QC) was implemented by Columbus and FilabAmsud to ensure the accuracy and reproducibility of the analytical method and results. Samples returning values above 10 g/t Au by fire-assay method were re-analysed with a gravimetric finish on a second 50-gram pulp split.
The field work was conducted under the supervision of Rock Lefrançois, President & Chief Executive Officer of Columbus and Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101, who has reviewed this news release and is responsible for the technical information reported herein, including verification of the data disclosed.
About Columbus
Columbus is French Guiana's leading gold exploration and development company. Columbus holds a major interest in the world-class Montagne d'Or gold deposit. A feasibility study for Montagne d'Or was filed in May 2017, and the mine permitting process is currently underway. In addition, Columbus has entered into an agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the Rhea gold exploration property and is also earning into the Maripa gold exploration project, where past drilling has returned excellent near surface results, including 36 metres of 4.3 g/t gold. Columbus' objective is to assemble a portfolio of high-quality gold exploration projects in the highly prospective and underexplored Guiana Shield.
Rock Lefrançois
President & CEO
For more information contact:
Investor Relations
(604) 634-0970 or
Certain statements and information contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable U.S. securities laws and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, which are referred to collectively as "forward-looking statements". The United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe harbor" for certain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements and information regarding possible events, conditions or results of operations that are based upon assumptions about future economic conditions and courses of action. All statements and information other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "seek", "expect", "anticipate", "budget", "plan", "estimate", "continue", "forecast", "intend", "believe", "predict", "potential", "target", "may", "could", "would", "might", "will" and similar words or phrases (including negative variations) suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook. Forward-looking statements in this and other press releases include but are not limited to statements and information regarding: its plans, or modifications thereunder, to develop Montagne d'Or ; the construction and development plans for the Montagne d'Or gold mine, including anticipated timing thereof; the satisfaction of additional requirements to the construction of the Montagne d'Or gold mine, including but not limited to, the submission and processing of mine permit applications; the timing and rendering of a decision regarding the development of the gold mining industry in French Guiana; and the earning into of the Maripa gold exploration project and related exploration objectives and plans. Such forward-looking statements are based on a number of material factors and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results, performance or achievements, or industry results, to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking information. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Some of the known risks and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements are described in the sections entitled "Risk Factors" in the Annual Information Form of Columbus Gold Corp., available on SEDAR under Columbus' profile at www.sedar.com. Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Columbus undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements included in this press release if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as otherwise required by applicable law.


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New York Red Bulls
Mike Petke isn't happy about the US Open Cup.
Did you know that the Red Bulls are pretty much fully healthy?
Orlando City SC unveiled their MLS crest yesterday, and it's better than NYC FC's.
Chivas USA has agreed to part ways with forward Adolfo Bautista aka "Bofo".
US Soccer
Petke also spoke about the US Squad yesterday, saying that former Red Bull Tim Ream was the biggest snub.
I usually won't talk about an USL PDL team, but the Baltimore Bohemians released a new jersey, which beats pretty much anything in MLS right now.
There's an interesting discussion on reddit asking if America has a style of soccer.
Tottenham Hotspur have officially released manager Tim Sherwood.


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What Makes a Woman Beautiful?
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth: Open any magazine and you'll get a picture of what the world considers a beautiful woman. But what does the Bible say?
"Your beauty should not come from outward adornment; instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit."
Nancy: Do you focus more time and effort on outward beauty or on inner, spiritual beauty?
"Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised."
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"I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety."
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Our culture sends so many messages about what it means to be beautiful. Are you going to go with the world or with the Word of God?
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The Maltese Junior Eurovision national selection took place late last month, with the winner now announced. A total of 12 acts were in the running to represent the nation at the contest.
The final show was broadcast on TVM1 and was hosted by former Eurovision participant Amber alongside Dorian Casar. Pre-recorded performances from the participants were used during the show, and then online voting was open for several days. The online voting accounted for 50% of the vote, with jury votes making up the other 50%.
The 12 finalists were:
- Anneka Xerri – Moving
- Chanel Monseigneur – Chasing Sunsets
- Emma Cutajar – Modern-Day Cinderella
- Isaac Tom – Beside Me
- Kaya Gouder Curmi – Made of Stars
- Leah Cauchi – Anġli (Angels)
- Leah Mifsud – Anywhere
- Mariah Cefai – Change the Silence
- Michela Caruana – Replay
- Mychael Bartolo Chircop – The Child from Inside
- Yulan Law and Gianluca Cilia – Deck of Cards
- Zaira Mifsud and Eksenia Sammut – Only Live Once
The winner of the selection was Chanel Monseigneur with the song Chasing Sunsets. Chanel was born in 2011 and lives in Mosta. Her passion for singing began at an early age, but she began music lessons just 3 years ago. After participating in various local singing competitions, she took part in her first ever international competition held in Lithuania. The competition, Music Talent League, was a successful one for Chanel, finishing 1st place in her age group. She has since participated in Talent World Contest (Italy) and in Riga Symphony (Latvia), placing 1st in both competitions.
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Often times I'm asked how did I start in photography. Well, it started a long time ago …
I was in my first year in high school and one of my class mate's father was the head of the Romanian track & field team. He was able to travel all over the world due to his position. His father bought him a camera and I fell in love with it (he let me use it at times). My parents had the chance to make several trips to Russia and after many nagging requests from me, they bought me a Russian made camera: ZENIT. I was ecstatic.
Nineteen years later, when I left Romania, I sold everything I had, including my beloved camera. Little did I know that years later I will be photographing professionally. Last year, I started to trace it back. While not a great piece of equipment, it has a lot of sentimental value to me. After many months of searching, I was able to find it, and $30 later, have it in my hands. The first thing I did was to go and get some black and white film.
I started my professional career shooting on film, but it has been years since I shot a roll. It was my wife's birthday and I thought it would be a great opportunity to put it through some tests. Let me tell you: the new cameras spoiled me. I was trying to capture some great moments and I was taking a shot and forget to advance the film. When I was trying to take the next shot … nothing. It was so frustrating. Slowly, I started to get back in the mindset of shooting film: take your time, prepare, and take the shot. This is something that I try to do every time I go out and photograph but with the new cameras I don't have to worry about advancing the film. Because I started with film, I don't just go out and "machine gun" and hope that one picture will come out. So, while I'm not crazy about photographing on film again, the discipline of getting it right in the camera, allows me to take great pictures event after event and any new photographer should practice on film.
But this is a photography blog, so it will be nice to show some pictures as well …
This is the case that the camera comes with …
Front view of the camera …
A top view. As you can see, you can only select bulb, 30, 60, 125, 250 and 500 for your speed. To give you an idea, my current camera (work camera) goes from 30s to 8000nd of a second.
It has a rudimentary meeter that it's only useful outside in daylight. You set your ISO (ASA back then) and then you turn the dial until the metal circle overlaps with the wire. You then look at the aperture/speed combo that it gives you.
I never liked the P&S cameras that were out there until about a year ago. Too many buttons and too many features that are useless and just a marketing ploy. When Panasonic came out with their GF1, I was in love. Now, with both of them side by side, I know why. You can see the resemblance in simplicity of operation and looks.
And here are some images shot with the camera. I love this old look of this image. It wasn't done in purpose … I was just off on my exposure 🙂 , but I love the look. All images bellow are straight out of "camera" (they are actually scans done by the lab).
In conclusion … I don't miss shooting film 🙂 … Some say that it has a certain "look". That is true, but you can achieve that look in post processing. What I do miss is the workflow. When I was shooting film, I was dropping the rolls at the lab and a week later I was getting back the strips of film and proofs. Now, I am the photographer and the lab. In a way is better since I have control from beginning to finish over the product. On the other hand, I spend more time in front of the computer.
There was one thing that I kind of miss: the anticipation of seeing the images when they come back from the lab (you are "blind" when shooting film since there is no display on the back of the camera). It feels the same way as back in high school when you went out on a date and you didn't know if you will get a kiss at the end of the date 🙂 . Same with film: you don't know if you got the image until you get the film back from the lab.
And that friend of mine from high school? He is a photojournalist for a sports paper in Romania. You can look him up: Andrei Nourescu.


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Today's walk was a short 2.8 miles but my husband and I still enjoyed our visit to Columbia City where we walked tidy streets and admired houses old and new, large and small.
This area bounded by Rainier Avenue S, s Ferdinand Street, 47th Avenue S and S Brandon Street is dominated by Orcas K-8 School.
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When it comes to finding a place to stay, D.C. has the full range of prices. What's more, some of the less expensive options can still be pretty nice. However, for planning a high profile event, enormous wedding or the trip of a lifetime, it might be worth your while to shell out the extra dough. As such, we've compared one moderately priced hotel and one exorbitantly priced hotel in three of the neighborhoods rife with options, so as to help you answer the question: save or splurge? To keep things consistent, all of the prices shown below reflect what it currently costs for one adult to stay in town from April 4th to April 5th.
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Choose To Stay Here If: You want to plan your guided tour right in the lobby and get the most touristy experience possible. Also of note, Hotel Harrington is one of the oldest hotels in the city and just celebrated its 100th birthday.
Price Range For One Night: $383 (Deluxe King Room) - $3,360 (The Washington Suite)
Choose To Stay Here If: You potentially want to run into a famous politico. Presidents and authors (Mark Twain and Walt Whitman) have stayed there, the lobby is enormous and you just might see a familiar CSPAN face at Round Robin.
Price Range For One Night: $135 (Shared Bath/Double Bed) - $200 (Private Bath/Queen Bed)
Choose To Stay Here If: You like the feeling of a home/tavern. It's absolutely a more personal experience and a neighborhood institution with a bar that locals will brunch at as well. That said, keep in mind that you might be sharing the shower.
Price Range For One Night: $233 (Superior Room 1 King Bed or 1 Double Bed) - $649 (Luxury Suite 1 King Bed With Balcony).
Choose To Here Stay If: You want to be in the center of Dupont Circle. Perhaps you're a visiting dignitary, or maybe you like what the nightlife options are in Dupont. Also, this is the place if you want to bring your pet (for a fee).
Price Range For One Night: $249 (Accessible Room) - $299 (Georgetown Suite)
Choose To Here Stay If: You're coming on a company trip or if you're a senior. Those rates go down. Also, if the only room amenity that you really need (because you'll be shopping all day) is a Keurig coffeemaker.
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It is also worth noting that the direct injection with lean burn technology is mentioned. If and when BMW is able to find a way to introduce this to the US it would be a boost in efficiency and power!