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- www.tiptoptablesinc.com
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- Serving:
- Serving Baltimore MD
- Address:
- 2707 Rolling Road Suite 108
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- Windsor Mill, MD 21244
With over 10 years of professional experience, we customize our services to give your child the themed party they deserve. We will tailor our party options to fit the specific theme of your child's party.
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Having had over 10 years of professional services, we customize our party rental options and party rooms to fit the specific theme of your child's party. We reach out to such events as birthdays, themed parties, field trips, graduations.
Depending on your child's theme, we can customize our signature party rooms with specific rental options. If you want rentals for venues away from our specific location, we will match the right rental options to fit the specific theme.
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We offer our signature party room at different prices, depending on how many children you have as guests and whether or not food is included. Each of our parties that feature your child's theme include a five-in-one inflatable moon bouncer and such games as Boom Blaster Baseball Toss, Pin-the-Candle on the Cake, Tic-tac Toss, and double-shot basketball. At your request, we can arrange the specific games your child wishes to feature for the themed event.
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In addition to children's and adult parties, we provide rental services with tables, table accessories, tents, tent accessories, inflatables, concessions, power tools, sport equipment, and games.
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* It is designed for installation or rescue operation.
* It is designed for installation or rescue operation.
* It only runs in RAM, without any special filesystems like squashfs, thus it is limited to the RAM which is installed in your system.
* It only runs in RAM, without any special filesystems like squashfs, thus it is limited to the RAM which is installed in your system.
==Archboot ISO Releases==
==Archboot ISO Releases==
* Hybrid image files and torrents are provided, which include i686 and/or x86_64 core repository.
* Hybrid image files and torrents are provided, which include i686 and/or x86_64 core repository.
Revision as of 08:53, 13 April 2013
- 1 What is Archboot?
- 2 Archboot ISO Releases
- 2.1 Burning Release
- 2.2 Supported boot modes of Archboot media
- 2.3 PXE booting / Rescue system
- 2.4 News
- 2.5 History
- 2.6 The difference to the archiso install media
- 2.7 Interactive setup features
- 2.8 Bootparameters
- 2.9 FAQ, Known Issues and limitations
- 2.10 UEFI hints
- 2.11 Bugs
- 3 Links
- 4 Restore Usbstick
- 5 Create image files
What is Archboot?
- Archboot is a set of scripts to generate bootable media for CD/USB/PXE.
- It is designed for installation or rescue operation.
- It only runs in RAM, without any special filesystems like squashfs, thus it is limited to the RAM which is installed in your system.
Install archboot from the official repositories.
Archboot ISO Releases
- Hybrid image files and torrents are provided, which include i686 and/or x86_64 core repository.
- Please read the according Changelog files for RAM limitations.
- Please check md5sum before using it.
- Download 2013.03 "2k13-R1" / Changelog / Forum thread
Burning Release
Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image.
- Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities.
- Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives.
'dd if=<imagefile> of=/dev/<yourdevice> bs=1M'
Supported boot modes of Archboot media
- It supports BIOS booting with syslinux.
- It supports UEFI booting with gummiboot and EFISTUB,
- for booting LTS kernels with efilinux-efi .
- (only UEFI USB is supported, UEFI CD booting is not supported!)
- It supports grub's iso loopback support.
- variables used (below for example):
- iso_loop_dev=UUID=XXXX
- iso_loop_path=/blah/archboot.iso
- It supports booting using syslinux's memdisk (only in BIOS mode).
PXE booting / Rescue system
Download 2013.03 "2k13-R1" needed files from the directory.
- vmlinuz_i686 + initramfs_i686.img (i686)
- vmlinuz_x86_64 + initramfs_x86_64.img(x86_64)
- vmlinuz_i686_lts + initramfs_i686.img (i686 LTS kernel)
- vmlinuz_x86_64_lts + initramfs_x86_64.img (x86_64 LTS kernel)
- For PXE booting add the kernel and initrd to your tftp setup and you will get a running installation/rescue system.
- For Rescue booting add an entry to your bootloader pointing to the kernel and initrd.
2013.03 "2k13-R1"
- major update/cleanup on all components
- kernel 3.8.4 / LTS kernel 3.0.70
- pacman 4.0.3 usage
- RAM recommendations: 768 MB
Kernel changes
- bump to latest 3.8.x series and bump lts to latest 3.0.x series
Environment changes
- updated pacman mirrorlist
- replaced netcfg with netctl
- removed ide-legacy hook
- replaced arch_virtio, arch_fw with block hook
- replaced usbinput with keyboard hook
- replaced dbus-core with dbus
- bump to latest mkinitcpio code
- bump syslinux from 4.x to 5.0
- removed bind and dnsutils
- blacklist floppy module during boot
setup changes
- replaced netcfg network setup with netctl
- always install netctl instead of netcfg
- replaced gummiboot-efi with gummiboot
- removed initscripts compat mode
- always install systemd-sysvcompat
- updated gummiboot install routine
- updated refind install routine
- removed persistent soundcard and network hack,
- systemd handles everything now.
- no need to add hostname to /etc/hosts anymore
quickinst changes
- removed initscripts compat mode
- removed rc.conf hint
- removed double check on ntfs
History of old releases can be found here.
The difference to the archiso install media
- It provides an additional interactive setup and quickinst script.
- It contains [core] repository on media.
- It provides the long time support kernel as boot and installation option.
- It runs a modified Arch Linux system in initramfs.
- It is restricted to RAM usage, everything which is not necessary like
- man or info pages etc. is not provided.
- It doesn't mount anything during boot process.
Interactive setup features
- Media and Network installation mode
- Changing keymap and consolefont
- Changing time and date
- Setup network with netctl
- Preparing storage disk, like auto-prepare, partitioning, GUID (gpt) support, 4k sector drive support etc.
- Creation of software raid/raid partitions, lvm2 devices and luks encrypted devices
- Supports standard linux,raid/raid_partitions,dmraid,lvm2 and encrypted devices
- Filesystem support: ext2/3/4, btrfs, nilfs2, reiserfs,xfs,jfs,ntfs-3g,vfat
- Name scheme support: PARTUUID, PARTLABEL, FSUUID, FSLABEL and KERNEL
- Mount support of grub loopback and memdisk installation media
- Package selection support
- Signed package installation
- hwdetect script is used for preconfiguration
- Auto/Preconfiguration of framebuffer, uvesafb, kms mode, fstab, mkinitcpio.conf, systemd, crypttab and mdadm.conf
- Configuration of basic system files
- Setting root password
- grub-bios, grub-efi-x86_64, grub-efi-i386, refind-efi-x86_64, gummiboot, efilinux-efi, lilo, extlinux/syslinux, bootloader support
General boot parameters
- earlymodules
- load modules before hooks are executed
- Usage:
- earlymodules=<comma-separated-array>
- earlymodules=ahci,ehci-hcd
- disablehooks
- disable a hook which is run during bootup
- Usage:
- disablehooks=<comma-separated-array>
- disablehooks=arch_floppy,arch_cdrom
- root
- Using this option will boot you into your specified existing system.
- Usage:
- root=/dev/<your-root-of-installed-system>
- root=/dev/sda3
- rootflags
- Using this option will pass special mount options for your root device
- Usage:
- rootflags=<comma-separated-array>
- rootflags=subvol=root,compress,ssd
- advanced
- This will override advanced hooks running order for your system.
- Default order is arch_mdadm,arch_lvm2,arch_encrypt
- Advanced hooks are: arch_mdadm,arch_lvm2,arch_encrypt
- Usage:
- advanced=hook1,hook2,hook3
- advanced=arch_encrypt,arch_mdadm
- arch-addons
- You want to load external addon packages or configs into the install environment.
- Place external addon packages in /packages directory of your external device.
- Place external configs in /config directory of your external device.
Video and framebuffer options
- uvesafb
- enables uvesafb mode during boot and activates setup routine to use it later on installed system.
- you need to specify your supported resolution eg.:
- uvesafb=<resolution>-<depth>
- uvesafb=1024x768-16
- fbmodule
- Loads the fb module you specify durin boot process and activates setup routine to use it later on installed system.
- Use it like this fbmodule=<yourmodule>, e.g. fbmodule=cirrusfb
FAQ, Known Issues and limitations
- Release specific known issues and workarounds are posted in changelog files.
- Check also the forum threads for posted fixes and workarounds.
- Why screen stays blank or other weird screen issues happen?
- Some hardware doesn't like the KMS activation, use radeon.modeset=0 or i915.modeset=0 on boot prompt.
- dmraid might be broken on some boards, support is not perfect here.
- The reason is there are so many different hardware components out there. At the moment 1.0.0rc16 is included, with latest fedora patchset.
- grub2 cannot detect correct bios boot order:
- It may happen that hd(x,x) entries are not correct, thus first reboot may not work.
- Reason: grub cannot detect bios boot order.
- Fix: Either change bios boot order or change menu.lst to correct entries after successful boot. This cannot be fixed it is a restriction in grub/grub2!
- Why is parted used in setup routine, instead of cfdisk in msdos partitiontable mode?
- parted is the only linux partition program that can handle all type of things the setup routine offers.
- cfdisk cannot handle GPT/GUID nor it can allign partitions correct with 1MB spaces for 4k sector disks.
- cfdisk is a nice tool but is too limited to be the standard partitioner anymore.
- cfdisk is still included but has to be run in an other terminal.
UEFI hints
Restore Usbstick
Take care about which device actually is your USB stick. The next command will render all data on /dev/sdX inaccessible.
- First, wipe the bootsector of the USB stick:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=1
- Then, create a new FAT32 partition on the stick and write a FAT32 filesystem on it (vfat or type b in fdisk terminology):
fdisk /dev/sdX <<EOF n p 1 t b w EOF mkdosfs -F32 /dev/sdX1
Create image files
Archboot Allinone ISO Howto
(Quick regeneration of installation media with latest available core packages)
- x86_64 architecture
- archboot ISO
- ~ 3GB free space on disk
Create archboot chroots
# install archboot pacman -S archboot mkdir <x86_64_chroot> pacman --root "<x86_64_chroot>" -S base --noconfirm --noprogressbar mkdir <i686_chroot> linux32 pacman --root "<i686_chroot>" -S base --noconfirm --noprogressbar
- Mount and copy the following files to each chroot:
mount -o bind /dev <chrootpath>/dev mount -o bind /tmp <chrootpath>/tmp mount -o bind /sys <chrootpath>/sys mount -o bind /proc <chrootpath>/proc cp -a /etc/mtab <chrootpath>/etc/mtab cp /etc/resolv.conf <chrootpath>/etc/resolv.conf
- Enter archboot x86_64 chroot:
chroot <chrootpath>
- Enter archboot i686 chroot:
linux32 chroot <chrootpath>
Install archboot and update to latest packages
# install in both chroots archboot: pacman -S archboot # update in both chroots to latest available packages pacman -Syu
Generate images
# run in both chroots (needs quite some time ...) archboot-allinone.sh -t # put the generated tarballs in one directory and run (needs quite some time ...) archboot-allinone.sh -g
- Finished you get a burnable iso image, a rawwrite usb image and a hybrid image which is both in one.
- Do not forget to unmount for each chroot after leaving:
umount <chrootpath>/dev umount <chrootpath>/tmp umount <chrootpath>/sys umount <chrootpath>/proc
Have fun! tpowa (Archboot Developer)


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Also something noted in the same post was a SMD soldering aid, this is a fantastic idea as I was soldering a tiny smd led onto my arduino (the pin 13 led was broken off) and what a pain it was to get it in the right place without burning my fingers or melting the poor little thing.
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"Bella!" my mother called for the second time. I slammed my book shut, and stroked it absentmindedly as I heard thunder behind me in the distance. Any moment it would start to rain, so I hurried to our back door. I carefully picked up my long dress in one hand as I went up the steps inside. I was known to fall a lot.
"Bella, dear. It is not right to make me repeat myself. Come now, we must go downtown. You may get one more book if you like, but I need to go talk to Mrs. Weber. She is bound to be around somewhere. Get your gloves and hat!" Renée, or rather, Mother ordered as I walked in.
My parents would probably have broken apart, had I not been born. It was frowned upon to do such a thing with a child. If your mother and father got seperated, you were stuck with one of the parents, and that particular parent would quickly re-marry. Then the other parent, the one who had not gotten the burden of a child, would be so shunned from the social scene, that to the naked eye, it would seem they were deathly ill. It was simply not a proper thing to do. If this certain event were to occur, however, I would be stuck, maybe turn into a maid and never have a proper husband. Not that it would matter; I didn't exactly want to get married. But my mother doesn't particularly like the idea of that, and regularly forces the idea of different young men onto me as possible beaus. Alas, my parents hide their mutual dislike toward each other for me and for their places in society. In public, they put on an appropriate display of affection a typical couple with a daughter of sixteen, like myself, would show.
"Yes, Mother. But what about the rain?" I questioned. "It won't come by us; Mrs. Newton is always good at predicting the weather. It should just miss downtown, we will be fine, my dear." She assured me. I nodded; I didn't exactly believe Mrs. Newton, although a couple lucky guesses in a row were not too bad, I suppose.I was looking forward to another book. I quickly ran up the stairs and refastened my bun on my head. I smoothed the loose strands back and looked at myself in the mirror.
I was pale, more than most normally are. Living in a small town in the outskirts of Chicago, most girls were a lot more prettier then I would ever be. Take for instance, Lauren Mallory. A pretty tall blonde. Most men would look at her with longing, but I saw right through her pretty face. She was very self centered, and I feel horrible for the man who she picks to be her husband.
I opened a door in my dresser to get my white gloves to match my blue dress. I found my hat sitting on top of my bed, and while I went to go get it I knocked a candle down. It gave me a fright; thank goodness it wasn't lit.
"Bella, dear? Are you alright?" my father called up from downstairs.
"Oh, yes, perfectly alright." I yelled back down. I put the candle back on the table by my bed and snatched my hat.
I went to my closet and found my blue ribbon, and I put it around my hat, making it match perfectly. Then there would be no nagging from my mother, who thinks it is her fault that I haven't gotten a husband yet. I was only sixteen, but in 1917, I was an adult, and in society.
I didn't ever discuss the idea of marriage; it was a touchy subject after all. Maybe if I found the right man, which is highly doubtful, then just possibly will I consider it.
I quickly put on my white gloves and fastened my hat on my head, and departed from my room.
We weren't that rich, but we managed. Our house was almost first class, just enough to get by in society. It still had a farm, and two stories, but it wasn't so bad. I looked around the house to find my mother. I passed my father in his office, passed the kitchen where the servants and cooks were; I walked by our piano parlor, which hardly ever got played unless Mother had time, or if I was forced.
I passed the dining room, and then through the window, and finally saw her looking at the clouds outside.
I smiled as I walked out next to her. We were fairly close.
"Mother, are you ready to go?" I asked her as she adjusted her hat, "Yes, darling." she replied, her gaze remaining on the clouds for one more second before turning to me and smiling.
My mother and I made our way down the street on foot, towards downtown.
As we approached, the hem of my dress was covered in dirt from the walking trip. I stopped and bent down so my arms would reach it and brushed most of the dirt off. I did the same with my gloves now, and then caught up to my mother.
"Mr. Bennett's book store is just over there, you may go ahead, and I see Mrs. Weber with Mrs. Newton talking." She first gestured to the book store and then to the ribbon store, where the two women were talking.
"Alright, I will meet with you as soon as I'm done." I said. She nodded and I walked to the book store, which was owned by a man named Mr. Bennett.
The bell on the door that I pushed made a small ring as I walked in. I breathed in the scent; it smelled like books, if there was ever such a scent. I looked eagerly at the books that had just come in.
"Ah, Ms. Swan, how are you today?" I heard Mr. Bennett ask. He was an elderly man, but I saw him often when I came.
"I'm wonderful, Mr. Bennett. And how are you?" I asked kindly.
"Fine, fine. I see you found our newest books. These came in yesterday, all the way from New York. There are some more by that Jane Austen that you like so much." He chuckled.
"Really?" I asked.
"Yes, right over here." And he gestured for me to come and follow him. I watched my step as there were some books on the ground that was stacked. I didn't want to trip. Again.
Then I saw them, and I immediately seized the book that was closest to me off the shelf with the name Austen on the spine.
My hand brushed it as I opened it up and read the first few pages. This was the one I wanted.
"Oh, thank you so much, Mr. Bennett!" I said as I closed the book and looked at him. "No problem, my dear. Shall we go see how much it costs?" he asked and gestured to go to the counter towards the front of the store. If I had to pick one place to spend my life, I think it would be in here.
As I paid for the book, I thanked him again and made my way out of the store carrying the book in my hands.
I decided to walk a little around town, before heading across the street to my mother. I walked past other stores, and decided to just turn around and go back to her, since the thunder had gotten worse and I didn't want to get soaking wet and catch a cold.
I was looking down at my new book, reading a sentence, and not looking where I was going. Suddenly I tripped over something and the book went flying out of my hands, at the same time as when my hat went flying off of my head.
I landed with a thump; my head hit the ground painfully. I groaned as more people were attracted to the loud noise. Around here I was most known for not being graceful. My mother noticed and came rushing, along with most others.
Then a man's hand was held out to me, and I took it looking up at him. His eyes were an exquisite shade of green, his hair a shade of bronze.
"Isabella, are you alright?" he asked me. I nodded, looking at his hand in mine, and then felt a spark. We both quickly separated our hands, as if he suddenly felt it too.
"Oh, here, let me help you." He said as he ran and got my book and hat.
"I'm terribly sorry for the trouble, Edward." I smiled. I quickly put on my hat, and brushed dirt off of me. I have never really talked with Edward Mason; he lived on the opposite side of town from me.
"It was no trouble at all, Isabella." He smiled at me.
"Please, call me Bella." I said.
"Alright, Bella." I smiled even more, but before I could say anything more, my mother arrived.
"Bella, dear, are you alright?" she asked as she quickly came and hugged me.
"I'm fine, mother." I assured her. "Oh, good." She nodded. Then she looked at Edward.
"Why, its Elizabeth's Mason's boy, Edward, isn't it?" she asked him.
"Yes, Ma'am." He answered.
"Thank you for helping my daughter." She said.
"It was no problem, Mrs. Swan." He assured.
"I'm sorry, Edward, but we must go now, come on Bella." She gestured for me to hurry up. I smiled back at Edward and departed down the road with my mother, my book now just held in my hands, because I didn't dare read it again while I was walking.
As we got in, it had just started to sprinkle with rain.
"Oh, Bella! The sheets are drying outside, they will be drenched of you don't go get them!" my mother said.
I nodded and took my hat and gloves off, and put my book down as I ran; I threw the gloves and hat on the table and ran outside into the now pouring rain. I gathered the sheets up and ran back inside. I was now very wet, and my mother met me inside with a towel. One of the servants took the sheets from me, to go set them by the fireplace, and I ran upstairs to go get changed into another dress.
My mother handed me my gloves, book, and hat before I could go up, and as I went through my door, I carelessly set them on my bed.
I got my other dress on and went to the dining room, where my parents were just sitting down for dinner.
"So, Bella, what did you get at the book store today?" Charlie, or rather, Father, asked me.
"A book called Emma." I answered.
"Probably by Jane Austen again, correct?" my mother asked.
"Yes, Mother." I smiled. We all ate in silence before she spoke again.
"So, Bella, that Edward Mason is quite a handsome man don't you think?" she asked, eyeing me.
"Well, yes, I daresay he is." I said looking at my plate.
"You know, he is single." She said.
"Oh, yes I was aware of the fact, why?" I asked her.
"Well, oh, you know why. You two would look nice together. He is a kind man after all." She admitted.
"Mother." I groaned.
"Renée, if Bella doesn't want to talk about it now, she can talk about it later." Father said to her. I mouthed 'thank you' to him, he nodded.
"Oh, very well. But this will come up again." She warned. I just rolled my eyes when she wasn't looking.
Later that night, as I lay reading by the lit fireplace, I started to think about what my mother said.
Would Edward and I look good together? He was very handsome, but I wasn't so beautiful.
Others sometimes disagreed with me about that; I didn't care to listen though.
Would I ever get married? I pondered, while I stared into the orange and red of the flames.
- Spark
- Surprises All 'Round
- Common
- The Newton's Ball
- I Love You
- There is a First for Everything
- Realization
- The Proposal
- Eddy
- Sink In
- Mason And Swan Engaged
- Dinner
- Catastrophe
- Awakening
- Happy 17th
- A Long Day
- Bella's Feelings
- Edward's Feelings
- Wedding Bells
- New Life
- Dinner Party
- Goodbyes
- Parting
- Grieving
- For Better Or For Worse
- In Sickness and In Health
- The Angel
- A Choice
- Illusion
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Physical care of the collection and updating of identifications and taxonomy are perpetual tasks in the department. In order to improve access to the information our collection holds, we continue to work on getting it into computer-usable form. All San Diego County and Baja California specimens are completely databased while staff and volunteers continue to database the remainder of the collection. In order to provide mapping tools, specimens must have a latitude and longitude included in the data. All specimens that come in the door through the Plant Atlas project already have a locality description and latitude and longitude in the data. Many of the historic specimens only have a written locality description, and we are working hard to georeference historic specimens from San Diego County and Baja California. In order to increase the potential use of our collections, the SD Herbarium of the Botany Department is a participant in the Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH) and organizer/home of the Baja California Botanical Consortium (BCBC).
The Botany Department is responsible for the creation of the San Diego County Plant Atlas Project and the BajaFlora project. Both of these projects, unique in their own way, have led to an increase in our knowledge base in both of these regions and have resulted in numerous tools that are available to the public. One of these tools, the Checklist of the Vascular Plants of San Diego County, continues to be updated online.
From the time this project began in 2002 to the present, the department's hundreds of volunteer parabotanists have collected plant vouchers across the county to scientifically document its floristic diversity. As a result of our growing collection combined with data from our historic collections, we can offer numerous resources to the public on our website. Useful for land management, scientific, conservation and educational purposes, the website offers mapping, database searches, photographic images and digital scans.
The BajaFlora project brings together the available floristic data on the plants of the Baja peninsula, Mexico. The data is presented in narrative, photographic, and geographic (mapping) forms. Dr. Jon Rebman, Curator of Botany, has begun work on major efforts to document the plants of the two states of Baja California. As part of his research, he has updated, expanded and completely rewritten the 1989 book by Norman Roberts, Baja California Plant Field guide, to be published in early 2012.
As our knowledge of the county grows, we continue to update the Checklist of the Vascular Plants of San Diego County (here referred to as simply the "Checklist"). Currently in print, the fourth edition of the Checklist catalogs all native and naturalized vascular plants known to occur in San Diego County, California, U.S.A. (Note that "naturalized" refers to non-native plants that grow, persist, and reproduce in natural, non-cultivated habitats.) This online version also incorporates updates, corrections, and additions made since the publication of the print version. A list of these corrections is included as an appendix on this site.
The algae collection at the SD Herbarium contains approximately 5000 specimens representing 1500-2000 species. The vast majority of the collection comes from 1880-1960. These early collections include a fair number of early specimens from Daniel Cleveland's collection, and there is even a species named after Cleveland (Ozophora clevelandii). About half of the museum's collection is composed of the Scripps algae collection which was donated to the museum in the 1990s. Work is now underway to database the entire algal collection. We have already databased the San Diego specimens and created an online Synoptic Collection with scans of the representative species.
The Museum's Botany Department was awarded a grant from the Blasker Rose-Miah Fund of the San Diego Foundation to conduct local climate-change research using botanical data. Specifically, the research focused on studying the flowering time of historic herbarium specimens to determine indicator species that may show a measurable response to changes in the local climate.


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Food for Unthought. — Appeal to reason through rational argumentation does not work well today because the mindset of secular leftism is irrationalistic. That mindset is also disjointed, incoherent, and given to distraction. Hence, one moment a man is claiming that rational argumentation is "mere word-games", "fiddling with language", etc, and the next, he is claiming something on its basis.
The secular leftist accepts no greater authority than his own desires. Reason cannot lead him. (Nevertheless, to a promissory idol of those desires, he may give the honourable name of reason.) As long as rational argumentation remains the slave of those desires, he can praise it, but otherwise he scorns it as unconnected with reality, which for him is merely the occasion for his desires. (His inheritance from romanticism.)
Since he will go only where his desires lead him, regardless of whether those desires are rationally ordered, rational argumentation has little force against him. Indeed, he even draws strength from the rational argumentation made against him. For argumentation suggests to him a matter open to question, and anything that is open to question, but which is not in accord with his desires, he finds easy to dismiss.
Secular leftism, like all evil, is parasitic upon good. Rational argumentation is food for secular leftism as blood is food for leeches.
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Adapted from a comment made to Bruce G. Charlton, "The Counter-Productiveness of Arguments for the Reactionary", Bruce Charlton's Miscellany (weblog), 24th October 2012.


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It's all about relationships, not rolesTuesday, June 19th, 2012
Are roles the right way to control access?
In some cases, clearly yes — there's a whole formal model of role-based access control (RBAC) out there and it's worked well in some business contexts for years.
But in other cases, just as clearly, RBAC is inadequate.
I raise this because in the context of an identity management system, one of the things we have to do is control who has access to whose profile. For example, can one employee see another's work phone number? Home phone number? Scheduled termination date? Who can edit these things?
It turns out that pure RBAC is a poor model for access controls in these cases.
If we use RBAC, then we have to define roles for users who can access this data. Whose data can they access? Everyone's apparently. For example, we might say that "all employees can access the work phone numbers of all users." Sounds reasonable. Another example might be "only HR can access home phone numbers and scheduled termination dates." Is that reasonable too?
If we think about these examples, we have to conclude that RBAC isn't up to the task. For example, do we allow one HR user to see another HR user's scheduled termination date? What about his own? If Bob in the corner (who happens to work in HR) is going to be terminated on Friday, should he know that? That's a security problem.
What about usability problems? I would think that co-workers should be able to find one another's home phone number. What happens if someone is hurt at work and you want to contact their family? How about if there is an emergency off-hours and you want to call someone to see if they can help? Clearly, we want to open up home contact information — not to the entire organization, as this could raise privacy concerns — but perhaps to people in the same department or location.
The same thing applies to scheduduled termination dates. It would be useful for managers to be able to see and change these for their subordinates. For example, a manager responsible for a large segment of the organization might want to periodically see what contractors are due for termination in the coming few weeks and perhaps extend some contracts to allow for unfinished work. On the other hand, the same manager should not be able to see his own scheduled termination date, or that of anyone who does not report to him.
The common thread that runs through these scenarios is relationships. What one user — lets call him the requester — can see of and modify in another's profile — lets call the second user the recipient — should depend not merely on the requester's role, but also on the relationship between the requester and recipient.
That's the context of access control decisions inside an identity management system. In other systems, context may include other things — how is the requester related to the data he wishes to access?
And this is where RBAC falls short. To make access control decisions about what a given user can see or do, we need more than the identity of the requester — we need context for their requested access. In identity management, that context is a relationship.
So why do I bring this up?
In previous releases of Hitachi ID Identity Manager, access control within our software was built on an RBAC model. What I've seen of other, competing products is the same — access control decisions are made based on the requester's role and usually nothing else.
Organizations that wanted to manage sensitive data in their IDM system would then either have to exclude it, reducing the value of their investment, or write lots of custom code, increasing the cost of their system. These were not good options.
Starting with release 8.0 of Hitachi ID Identity Manager, we completely overhauled our internal access control model. Our customers first define relationships and then attach access rights to those relationships. Relationships can be anything — manager/subordinate, same-location, same-department, etc. Really any set of criteria based on each user's profile attributes and group memberships.
This means that with Hitachi ID Identity Manager 8.0, organizations can easily model their real-world requirements, without resorting to custom logic. Want to allow managers to see/edit termination dates for their subordinates? No problem. Want branch office IT staff to be able to reset passwords for co-located users? Easy. Want to block HR staff from seeing their own termination dates? Simple.
Call us and try it out. You'll be impressed by the difference a smarter access control model can make.


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Eighth fiddlers' contest at Sheffield Field Day
On Labor Day, Monday, September 7, Sheffield Field Day will host its annual Pat O'Hagan Memorial Fiddlers' Contest in the gym at Miller's Run School, at 3249 Vermont Route 122, at 2 p.m. Registration for fiddlers will begin at 1:30 p.m.
Participants are asked to perform three pieces: a waltz, a hoedown, and a tune of their choice, such as a jig or strathspey.
The Fiddlers' Contest at Sheffield Field Day was founded in 2007 by Malcolm Goldstein, a violinist and composer who has spent his summers in Sheffield since the 1960s. In 2011, the Fiddlers' Contest was renamed in honor of Pat O'Hagan, who ran the contest for several years until her death in 2010.
Since its early years, the contest has been a beloved and popular event at Sheffield Field Day, drawing participants from as far away as Maine and Stanstead, Québec.
The contest is free and open to all ages, with competitive categories for youngsters (under 12), juniors (12 to 18), adults (over 18), and seniors (over 60). The prize money for first and second place winners is $40 and $25 respectively in the youngster category, $100 and $70 respectively in the junior category, and $200 and $150 respectively in both the adult and senior categories.
For questions, call Bobbie Bristol at (802) 626-8293 or e-mail at [email protected] — submitted by Bobbie Bristol.


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After an impressive press conference-opening filibuster where he discussed his defense at length, Jets coach Rex Ryan said he wasn't ready to make a call on his starting quarterback yet.
"I need a little more time to make that decision," Ryan said with a bit of a grin, knowing what he was wading into.
To be honest, there's not a good decision at this point. He's benched an ineffective Mark Sanchez. He watched third-stringer Greg McElroy win an ugly game. His deactivated backup, Tim Tebow, is so popular at the site of their next game that the Jaguars are taking off tarps to accommodate his adoring legions.
The Jets have to play this one carefully, because they have $8.5 million in guaranteed money next year in Sanchez. Fixing him needs to be the priority, and giving him a chance in a winnable game makes more sense than bowing to public pressure to start a more popular player.


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It's not all doggy biscuits, grooming and pedicures, you know. Being an animal actor can be a pretty tough gig at times. Sure, there might be the opportunity to cuddle up with Aleksandra Kurzak during rehearsal breaks and play Fetch with Roberto Alagna on occasion but it's hard work, let me assure you.
You really have to push the envelope to become a star and the other day I had to practise my grand entrance four times. Four! That's more than that donkey from Carmen would deign to do. Domingo may have called her 'A great scene stealer' but is she prepared to suffer for her art? I have my doubts!
I might only be 17 months old but my acting approach is rooted in that of the greats; you know, method acting – channelling my inner Marlon Brando. As my agent said the other day, 'Roberto might have a sonorous voice and Aleksandra can give a look that'd have any Nemorino or Belcore falling at her feet but I think we both know that you're the real trump card for this revival'.
I always do my research and I like to think pays off – in this case I've concentrated on the influence of Federico Fellini on the production. And so after a few viewings of La dolce vita and 8 ½, I like to think of myself in this production as a poochy Marcello Mastroianni. My elegant gait as I bound across the stage says it all: 'Here I am: performing not the role of a village dog but imparting the truth.' I think it works.
I was never really a Donizetti fan before being in L'elisir d'amore but this has definitely changed my mind. Johann Sebastian Bark was always more my thing if I'm honest but after Roberto's jaw-dropping performance of 'Una furtiva lagrima', you could say I'm a convert.
So, I hope you enjoy my performance and that of my co-stars too. Oh and do feel free to leave any doggy biscuits at Stage Door. Flowers just don't cut it with this canine.
L'elisir d'amore runs from 27 May–22 June 2017. Tickets are still available.


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The Gift (UK): second album finally coming!
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Topic: The Gift (UK): second album finally coming!
Posted: July 07 2013 at 08:05
The Gift: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2734, gave us one of the best prog albums of 2006 with their 2CD debut release 'Awake And Dreaming', and talk was in November of last year that a new album 'Land Of Shadows' would be released in January 2013.
It is indeed already on our site: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=39778, added somewhat prematurely with January 2013 as the release date...
Well, it is finally coming to us in both CD and digital formats in November this year, with presales starting in September to coincide with Summers End.
Due to personal circumstances, Simon Godfrey has had to pull out of the re-mixing Land Of Shadows. He was enjoying the challenge but has had to focus his efforts elsewhere for the time being. The new helmsman is the wonderful Tim Lawrie, a brilliant young engineer who has already earned his stripes with Manning and Shineback. The initial fruits of his labour will be showcased on a cover CD of the UK 'Prog' magazine before the nights start drawing in...
Not only is the Gift's sophomore release finally about to see the light of day, there is already talk of a third album!
On Friday 31st May, The Gift officially signed to Bad Elephant Music. The label, brainchild of David Elliott and James Allen, is already home to The Fierce And The Dead and Shineback, so the band find themselves in prestigious company. BEM is devoted to truly progressive music, and it really does do it for the art - a claim often made but seldom fulfilled. The band is delighted, and assure us that there will be a much shorter gap between Land Of Shadows and its follow up. We hear dark mutterings that it will be a double concept album (!) provisionally titled Pandemonium. More of which anon....
As well as a new record label, the band have also announced a new six-man line-up:
The Gifts debut album was created by a line-up which disbanded almost as soon as it formed. For Mike Morton in particular, this was profoundly frustrating, as he always had a vision for a full, concept-driven live show. In 2010, Mike joined forces with David Lloyd, and together they created The Gifts second album, Land Of Shadows (to be released later this year). In order to fully realise both albums onstage, the band is now a 6-man live unit.
This new line-up spans 2 generations of proggers. Mike, David and Gary were there in the 70s (more hair - smaller waistlines), whereas Joe, Sam and Franz are young upstarts whose awakening came in the 90s with Spocks Beard, Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree etc. They then rewound avidly through older collections (in Joes case, his Dads!) Having discovered the joys of Genesis, Yes, Crimson and co., their musical fates were sealed. So the new live sound will be a heady mixture of vintage and contemporary...
More info at: http://www.thegiftmusic.com
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I don't know if they can beat the quality of the first one, who was a masterpiece!
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From: http://thegiftmusic.com/news.php:
Bad Elephant Music is proud to announce that 'Land of Shadows', the much-anticipated sophomore release from symphonic prog masters The Gift, will be released on 5th May 2014.
Mike Morton, principal songwriter and vocalist with The Gift, said...We are genuinely thrilled about Land Of Shadows. The Gift dont do things quickly, but even by our standards this one was a long time coming. Part of the reason was our determination not just to remake Awake And Dreaming, which we could so easily have done. The new album is still very much us. Were still telling tall tales and mixing up vintage with modern sounds, but this time around things are more imminent; more live. Weve stripped back the layers and focused more on the song. But as card carrying proggers we still couldnt resist throwing in a 20 minute beast about a near death experience... For those who like their music emotional, complex and occasionally grandiose, itâll be right up your street.
BEMs CEO, David Elliott, said...Releasing an album by The Gift is the fulfilment of a long-standing personal dream. Awake And Dreaming is one of my favourite albums from the start of the progressive rock Renaissance of the mid-Noughties, and its a shame that Mike wasn't able to consolidate on the critical acclaim that the album received - due to circumstances beyond everyones control. With this new album - and a new lineup which will take The Gifts vision to the stage in 2014 - well finally see what this remarkable band can do.
Pre-orders will open on 31st March - more details will follow soon. The release will be preceded by a digital single, The Willows, which will be available from the Bad Elephant Music website from 10th March.
Only two tracks are streamable at the moment, but the whole thing should be available to sample on bandcamp in the fullness of time: http://music.badelephant.co.uk/album/land-of-shadows.
The Gifts definitive line-up: 18th Jan 2014
"After an exhausting round of auditions, the band has finally appointed a new drummer and bass player. Joseph Morton left a larger-than-life hole when he vacated the drum stool for his studies back in September. Finding the right replacement was never going to be easy, but the inimitable Scott Tipler (from the wild and eclectic Fuzzy Nautilus) is more than man enough for the task, bringing swing, power and panache to the bands sound. Dave Leak (aka Lex) is a wonderful bassist and a very good chap. This line-up is built to last, and the band are now rehearsing diligently for a series of important gigs throughout 2014."
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In selecting a new head coach for its basketball team, Springside School once again drew upon the hoops-rich tradition of the Philadelphia Catholic League's Northern Division. Outgoing coach Brian Morris came to Springside from Bishop McDevitt High School, and the Lions new mentor, Steve Purcell, spent the last two seasons as assistant coach for the girls basketball team at Archbishop Ryan.
Purcell knows Morris and knew a little about the Springside team, and after visiting the school for his interview his assessment was, in essence, what's not to like?
"They have a lot of talented players coming back, the people that I talked to were very nice and enthusiastic about the program, and obviously the facilities are great," he commented.
Speaking of Purcell, outgoing Springside Athletic Director Sheila Pauley noted, "He has a strong coaching background, especially being in the Catholic League (Archbishop Wood of the PCL North has won the last two PIAA Class AAA state championships].
Pauley continued, "He also really expressed the type of vision we want for the program moving forward. He has a lot of connections in the sport, which obviously are going to be helpful. He saw our team a couple times last season; in one of those weekend showcase events we played at Ryan."
Purcell's daughter Jennifer, a rising senior at Little Flower High School, is a friend of Springside senior forward Michelle Boggs. In fact, Boggs told him about the job opening at Springside when they were watching a Catholic League semifinal game back in February.
Purcell, who also has a son who's a student at the University of Pennsylvania, has coached in Chestnut Hill before, serving as a Chestnut Hill Academy assistant under John McArdle back in the 1980's. When his children were very young he traded a coach's clipboard for a referee's whistle, but he got back into coaching when his daughter began to play basketball in grade school.
He piloted the highly-successful girls team at St. Matthew's in Northeast Philadelphia for five years, leading them to the Philadelphia CYO final four on three occasions. Part of Purcell's own playing career was spent just over a mile away at Father Judge High School. He played for legendary Judge coach Bill Fox, then worked with him as an assistant coach for the Crusaders.
In all these assignments, and in his last two years as an assistant at Ryan, Purcell took the approach that "The best way to win is defense. Some days your shots aren't going to fall and you're not going to score a ton of points, but you can play tough defense every game and always give yourself a chance to win. It's pretty much the same with rebounding and foul shooting; they can keep you in games when not all your field goals are falling."
He's seen the sturdy, 6'1" Boggs play many times and plans to make use of her size in the low post on offense.
"I've heard about some of the other girls, but I don't really know what their strengths are yet," he said.
The Lions' new skipper met with his players last week, and will be on the sidelines this summer at their games in the Lou Cappiella League in Roxborough. He'll also try to watch the girls play for their various AAU club teams, and there will be casual open-gym sessions at Springside.
"We'll get to know each other before we start practicing for the school season," he remarked. "The one area where I'm playing catch-up is in scheduling some of our non-league games. That's something that's usually in place before the end of the previous season, but obviously that wasn't possible in this case."
He already has one assistant coach on board. His colleague Joe McGuire coached the boys freshman team at Father Judge, and put together several undefeated seasons there.
"We're also going to have two female assistants, and I've talked to some very good people," Purcell revealed. "I should be hearing back from them very shortly, and then we'll really be ready to go."


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ALBUQUERQUE, October 4, 2004—The Science & Technology Center for Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA), a consortium of hydrology research groups based out of the University of Arizona in Tucson, will hold its annual meeting on October 13-15, 2004 at the Albuquerque Marriott, 2101 Louisiana Boulevard, NE.
The theme for this year's SAHRA convention is "Focus on New Mexico." Presentations at the convention will describe SAHRA-sponsored research on the water-balance of the Rio Grande basin, salinization of the Rio Grande, and riparian vegetation in New Mexico.
New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. López is scheduled to open the annual meeting with introductory and welcoming remarks. The state-supported research university in Socorro is a founding member of SAHRA and is one of the lead universities in the consortium.
New Mexico State Engineer John D'Antonio will deliver a keynote address at the annual meeting, which is titled "Active Water Resources Management."
SAHRA is a research consortium comprised of universities, government agencies, and private organizations that was established to develop an integrated, multidisciplinary understanding of the hydrology of semiarid regions. The consortium, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, has adopted a dual mission for its operations: identifying critical knowledge gaps and conducting research to fill them; and, rapidly conveying new discoveries and technology in order to improve water management and policy.


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"None of the Above" and "The Numbers Game" (National Geographic Channel, Mondays). A brace of stunt-science shows -- edutainment is the word. And is actually a word. (First known use: 1973.) Like the network's "Brain Games" and "Duck Quacks Don't Echo," each is founded largely on the proposition that much of what you think you know is wrong and finds its fun in demonstrating that fact, using other facts. (This is that famous troublesome fact-based reality some are loathe to embrace.) Each series has a colorful, comical host -- tall and gregarious Briton Tim Shaw for "None," hipster-nerd "data scientist" Jake Porway for "Numbers"), a quick pace, a taste for animated infographics, and a yen to amaze, like Mr. Wizard in days of old.
"None of the Above" is a demonstration show, mostly about chemistry and physics, in which ordinary citizens out in the world are asked to suggest or choose from a number of things that might or might not happen if a certain thing was done to a certain other thing. That is just a framework, of course, like making the questions the answers in "Jeopardy." The results are often counterintuitive. (Spoilers ahead). What would happen if a person sat on a Tesla coil in a suit of armor. (Nothing.) What happens to a pickle when you run electricity into it. (It lights up.) What happens to ice when you mix in cotton balls. (It becomes uncrackable.) What happens to marshmallows in a vacuum? (They get super puffy.) What happens when you mix melted ice cream with self-rising flour and pop it in the microwave? (You get bread.) How do you get an olive into a wine glass without touching it? (Centrifugal force is your friend in this bar trick, performed in a bar. Shaw also goes to Compton in his Ford Ranchero, to Bludso's BBQ, to demonstrate what happens when you drop a frozen turkey into a huge vat of hot peanut oil. You might get that one right.)
The zippy "The Numbers Game" takes statistical probabilities regarding human behavior and presents them in a way that suggests that knowledge of how a certain sort of person is likely to act in a given circumstance can transform your own behavior -- to help you act like a hero, or to be less of a sucker. Such transference seems tenuous to me, but, again, this is really just a way to turn science into television -- and that, as Martha would say, is a good thing. The facts are interesting without the folderol -- there is a hidden-camera, prankish component to the show -- but the folderol makes the facts concrete. It's interesting to know that brain chemistry explains things con artists know from practice, and amusing, and alarming, to watch host Porway gather $125 in an hour by asking strangers for money for gas in a manner that surreptitiously creates trust. We learn too from a professional mentalist that a mind reader's best friend is a head already full of facts -- about geography and population distribution, regional accents or the generational likelihood of a first name beginning with a given letter. What looks supernatural, we learn, is "observation and statistics, pure math and science."
"Doll & Em" (HBO). British actresses and lifelong friends Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells are the stars and authors, with director Azazel Jacobs ("Terri"), of this low-boil friendship comedy, set in the wilds of moviemaking Hollywood. (With Stephen Merchant's late "Hello Ladies" and the ongoing "Episodes," you could make yourself a nice little television festival of shows about Britons lost in Tinseltown.) Mortimer, known here for "Match Point," "Hugo" and "The Newsroom," and Wells, known in Britain for "Spy" and "Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy," but not so known here, play versions of themselves: Em is in a big Hollywood movie, playing a mob boss; Doll, reeling from a breakup, has come to Los Angeles to recuperate and visit Em, who has hired her as her assistant, which makes everything between them unclear. (Doll: "You're the best friend that anyone could ever have." Em: "That's what a good assistant would say.") Power relationships wobble this way and that. ("I keep forgetting to pay you," says Em to Doll, who is being sent to buy coffee, with no money. "I've just been given all this cash, it's totally perfect.")
The tone is intimate, offhand, improvisational; the style is hand-held, fly-on-the-wall documentary without the pretense of being a documentary. (Jacobs comes out of the world of independent film.) It is not heavily plotted and is never played for laughs; its absurdities are, at most, only slight magnifications of those Hollywood lives daily, if a long literature of the industry is anything to go by. It's as complicated a duet, in its way, as that of "True Detective," and as well-played and rewarding, the more so as series about female friendship are in proportionately short supply. (Touch plays an unusually important role here, as a way of defining -- in ways both straightforward and ironic -- the characters and their connections.) A picture of a friendship under stress, but a picture of friendship all the same.
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Build Your Gold Watch List – but keep your portfolio in other sectors :
This past year was one of the worst ever for large mining companies, which suffered because of falling commodity prices and high leverage. They needed cash badly, and the streaming companies were more than happy to provide it. Mining giants such as Barrick Gold Corp., Glencore Plc, Teck Resources Ltd. and Vale SA all sold streams in 2015.
For junior or producing gold companies and their investors, the range of forecasts and continued volatility suggest it's wiser to ignore the crystal balls for now and instead focus on what companies can control, like ensuring a sound business plan, keeping their balance sheets strong, monitoring costs, and building value for their shareholders.
Trends are against gold:
1) no inflation can be detected
2) rising interest rates offer a money making alternative while we watch and wait
3) global unrest in the middle East, Africa and Ukraine continue unabated but don't move the panic button to " buy"
4) Peter Schiff continues to see gold at $5,000 ( our best contrarian indicator )
This is the time of year when analysts roll out their economic forecasts for the New Year. For those who keep a close eye on gold prices, this can be a painful process.
It's been another tough 12 months for the yellow metal, with prices falling for the third consecutive year — down about 10 per cent in 2015 alone. Prices touched a high in the neighbourhood of $1,300 and, as the year drew to close, they neared six-year lows around $1050.
That's a big dive from the heady days of 2011, when gold hit over $1,900 an ounce.
What made things even more difficult for the sector in 2015 was the price volatility. Just when it appeared prices might be on a firm trajectory upward, they would then fall, creating more uncertainty among everyone from investors to gold companies.
That volatility is making it harder for prognosticators to estimate 2016 prices with any certainty. It's the proverbial attempt to nail Jell-O to a wall.
That doesn't prevent them from trying. But the resounding lack of consensus suggests it is a fraught exercise. Some are breathlessly proclaiming we're on the brink of a new gold bull market. On the flip side, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan predict it will fall to the psychologically important $1,000 US-per-ounce level — or lower — in 2016. Bank of America Merrill Lynch believes it will average $950 an ounce in early 2016 before recovering. Slightly more optimistic forecasters, like HSBC, predict gold will average $1,205 next year.
Gold is different from other metals in that its prices are not driven largely by typical supply and demand. While the prices of other metals, like copper or silver, tend to rise and fall as economies grow and shrink, a lot of different forces affect gold's price. It's used as a store of wealth, unlike most other metals (you don't store copper to get rich), and it's considered a "safe haven" — used as a hedge against political and economic uncertainty.
Inflation and the U.S. dollar are two major forces behind gold's prices. In 2015, they didn't work in gold's favour. The collapse of the price of oil has kept inflation in check, which is bad for gold because of its role as a hedge against rising prices. The U.S. dollar has been strong — another blow for gold, which performs contrary to the greenback. Some say one of the reasons for the strong dollar was ongoing speculation that the U.S. Federal Reserve would raise rates for the first time in almost a decade. The Fed did that on Dec. 16, but there was minimal impact on gold due to the central bank's dovish approach of a gradual tightening of future rates.
The dark side of metal streaming deals: Strapped mining companies trade future value for cash ( Financial Post )
In September, Robert Quartermain did something highly unusual for a mining executive — he signed a streaming deal with an early exit strategy.
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Quartermain, the CEO of Vancouver-based Pretium Resources Inc., was alarmed at how much value miners are giving away in gold and silver stream sales, in which future output is sold at below-market prices in exchange for an instant cash infusion.
So when he sold a US$150-million stream on Pretium's Brucejack project in British Columbia, he insisted that the deal include buyback options for Pretium in 2018 and 2019, and that it cap the number of gold and silver ounces that can be sold.
"When you start putting in higher levels of streaming, and the stream lasts forever, then the potential upside starts going to streaming holders and (away from) your existing shareholders," Quartermain said in an interview.
This will go down as the biggest year ever for metal streaming deals, and it's not even close. Miners have raised US$4.2 billion from 11 stream sales in 2015, according to Financial Post data. That is nearly double the US$2.2 billion raised in 2013, which is the second biggest year on record.
For the most part, mining analysts and investors have cheered these deals. But their sheer number has caused alarm for some observers, who worry that miners are giving away vast amounts of future upside once metal prices improve.
The metal streaming business was created back in 2004. In these transactions, a streaming company like Silver Wheaton Corp. gives a mining company an upfront cash payment. In return, it gets the right to buy a fixed amount of precious metals production from the miner at a fixed price that is far below the market price. The streamer can then sell the metal for a profit. The biggest players in this business are Silver Wheaton, Franco-Nevada Corp. and Royal Gold Inc.
This past year was one of the worst ever for large mining companies, which suffered because of falling commodity prices and high leverage. They needed cash badly, and the streaming companies were more than happy to provide it. Mining giants such as Barrick Gold Corp., Glencore Plc, Teck Resources Ltd. and Vale SA all sold streams in 2015.
On the surface, these deals made a lot of sense for mining companies. Their stock prices are so depressed that they do not want to even think about issuing equity. And the last thing this sector needs is to take on more debt. So they sold future metal production instead.
"When companies are between a rock and a hard place, they often sell what's good because they can't sell what's bad," said John Tumazos, an independent analyst.
The problem is that streams destroy much of the future "option value" for mining companies. Since the streaming metal is typically sold at fixed prices far below the market price, the streamers get all the benefit when market prices go up.
To take an extreme example, Silver Wheaton was buying silver from some mining companies at less than US$4 a pound in 2011, when silver prices rose to almost US$50. It was a massive transfer of wealth from mining companies to a streaming company.
Another concern is that streams can eliminate the exploration upside from a mine. If a miner has agreed to sell a fixed percentage of gold or silver production from a mine to a streamer, it will have to sell more metal if it makes a new discovery on the property and boosts production.
When companies are between a rock and a hard place, they often sell what's good because they can't sell what's bad
John Ing, president and gold analyst at Maison Placements Canada, said streaming is reminiscent of hedging, in which metal is sold in fixed-price contracts. Hedging was all the rage in the gold industry in the 1990s, when prices were low. But it became a massive liability once prices rose far above the value in the contracts. Barrick had to spend more than $5 billion to unwind its hedge book in 2009.
Eventually, hedging became a toxic word in the industry. It is almost nonexistent today.
"It wasn't until the price of gold went up that everybody realized what Barrick was leaving on the table," Ing said.
"The same thing is going to happen (to streaming) when the price of gold goes up again. Not until then will people focus on the dark side of the streams."
For investors that don't like streaming, the good news is that miners are starting to preserve more upside for themselves in these transactions.
For example, Barrick struck a US$610-million stream sale with Royal Gold last August that guarantees higher sale prices down the road. For the first 550,000 gold ounces and 23.1 million silver ounces that Barrick delivers to Royal Gold, it receives 30 per cent of the prevailing spot prices. For every ounce after that, it receives 60 per cent of the spot prices. So if silver prices go up, Barrick stands to benefit.
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Pretium's Brucejack project in British Columbia.
Pretium went even further by negotiating optional buybacks of its stream and capping the total amount of gold and silver to be sold. If Pretium discovers more metal at the Brucejack project, it won't go into the stream.
Traditional streaming companies like Silver Wheaton and Royal Gold are looking to buy streams that will last for decades, so Pretium's deal is not for them. Instead, Pretium sold the stream to two private equity firms, Orion Resource Partners and Blackstone Group.
These companies are just looking for a good return and are not bothered by the idea of having their stream re-purchased in a few years. That is a relatively new concept in streaming, and it could be a game-changer if more private equity firms and other players decide to compete with traditional streamers.
Quartermain said his deal is proof that miners have alternatives to conventional streaming. He hopes other companies will follow Pretium's lead and try to maintain some upside in these deals.
"We've shown you can, even in challenging markets, finance good projects and achieve that upside for shareholders," he said.
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