text: Springfield City Schools Career ConnectED Center Holds Symposium In Springfield By Wayne Baker • Jun 9, 2015 Greater Springfield Career ConnectED The newly-formed Greater Springfield Career ConnectED Consortium held its first symposium in Springfield this week. The event attracted more than 200 people, including educators and business leaders from across the country. Kim Fish with Springfield City Schools, one of the ConnectED partners, explained the event helped show how the consortium will help students better prepare for college and careers after high school. Springfield, Yellow Springs School Districts And Stem Academy Granted Testing Waiver By Wayne Baker • Apr 3, 2015 Springfield and Yellow Springs school districts, along with the Global Impact STEM Academy, were notified yesterday that they have received conditional approval to opt out of significant state and federal testing requirements. Dr. Richard Ross, who is Ohio's superintendent of public instruction, informed both school districts and the STEM Academy that they will be able to use alternative assessments to monitor student progress and reduce the amount of state assessments required by law. Six Springfield High School Athletes Accused Of Theft By Wayne Baker • Apr 1, 2015 Wayne Baker / WYSO Springfield City School District Superintendent David Estrop held a press conference to announce that six players on the Springfield High School boys varsity basketball team allegedly stole athletic gear from the Xavier University locker room. Springfield City Schools Have New Superintendent By Wayne Baker • Mar 27, 2015 Wayne Baker / WYSO The Springfield City School District's Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday night to hire Dr. Robert Hill from Lorain County's Firelands School District to replace retiring Superintendent Dr. David Estrop. Estrop announced late last year that he's retiring in June because of legislative changes to the state's retirement program. He's been in charge of the district for six years and has spent nearly 45 years in education. Springfield City Schools, STEM Academy and YS School District Apply for Testing Waivers By Wayne Baker • Feb 27, 2015 Wayne Baker / WYSO Both Springfield and Yellow Springs school districts are applying for a five-year waiver to opt out of significant state and federal testing requirements. There was a little staged magic involved in today's press conference on the issue. Both Springfield and Yellow Springs are part of the Innovation Lab Network - a group of schools that use alternative teaching models. Estrop was also speaking for the Global STEM Academy in Springfield that is also applying for a waiver. Board of Education Selects Three Finalists For Superintendent By Wayne Baker • Feb 25, 2015 Three finalists have been selected to replace Dr. David Estrop as superintendent of the Springfield City Schools. Estrop is retiring at the end of the school year, and the school board is hoping to select his replacement by the end of March. District Treasurer Dale Miller says the finalists are all superintendents of other Ohio school districts: Robert Hill from Firelands Local School District in Cleveland, Guy Parmigian from Benton-Carroll-Salem Local School District in Oak Harbor, and Carl Metzger from South-Western City Schools in Grove City. Springfield City Schools Might Benefit From Governor's Proposed Budget By Wayne Baker • Feb 5, 2015 Gov. John Kasich's proposed $72.3 billion budget includes cuts to more than half of Ohio's public school districts, but the superintendent of Springfield City Schools believes the budget will help his and many other districts. Dr. David Estrop, who's in his final year as the head of Springfield City Schools, says poorer school district's like Springfield get more funding under the governor's proposal. Champion City Scholars Program Benefits Low Income Students In Springfield By Wayne Baker • Nov 17, 2014 The Springfield School District and the Clark State Foundation have awarded college tuition to 41 students expected to graduate from Springfield High School. The Champion City Scholars Program targets low-income middle school students who will become the first in their families to earn a college degree. Selected students are eligible for up to three years of college at Clark State or assistance with tuition at another college—but they have to commit early to graduating from high school. Promise Neighborhoods Thrive In Springfield By Wayne Baker • Sep 18, 2014 Wayne Baker The Springfield Promise Neighborhood held its fifth annual PromiseFest this week. The program designed to help families in poor areas thrive, is getting stronger. Nearly 20 years ago in Harlem, New York, Geoffrey Canada started the Promise Neighborhood initiative to help children from poor families succeed at the earliest age possible. Canada called it the "cradle through college" system that made sure kids were safe, in school and fed. Springfield City Schools Pleased With Revised Common Core Rules By Wayne Baker • Jun 23, 2014 Ohio lawmakers recently passed a new provision in House Bill 487 that will ease the restrictions of the Common Core education standards in Ohio Schools. The change in the law was good news to Springfield City Schools. The Common Core is a set of standards that recommends when students should be successfully passing certain math and reading skills. Superintendent Dr. David Estrop believes that Common Core isn't a bad idea, but its implementation was moving too fast. Pages1 2 next › last »


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The Albany Fire Department and the Georgia Forestry Commission are investigating after a fire starts near an illegal dumpsite.The fire happened in a wooded area off of Silica Drive and Mitchell Avenue Sunday.Multiple fire trucks and a brush truck were brought in to help douse the fire.Officials aren't sure how the fire started but they say if someone did this intentionally, there could be major consequences.Tom Lambert with the Georgia Forestry Commission said, "with arson fires there are penalties for that. You can be charged with a felony. So there are penalties for that sort of thing. If you're going to do any burning, you want to have means of containing it."No one was hurt.
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Intel claims most don't need a GPU
Integrated graphics have nearly caught up
Chipzilla claims that casual or mainstream gamers no longer need a discrete graphics card, because integrated graphics have nearly caught up.
Nvidia breaches the walls of Chrome
Remembers your p*rn
Nvidia fanboys can be safely assured that details of their visits to smut sites over the last two years have been lovingly recorded by their GPU.
Investors get bullish about AMD
Shares trading well
Over the Christmas break AMD experienced some brisk trading in its shares indicating that the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street think the company will stir to life this year.
"Personal Mobility as a Service" (PMaS) takes off in 2016
At Nvidia's CES 2016 keynote in Las Vegas, company co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took the audience by surprise to demonstrate a breakthrough in automotive supercomputing that is positioned to change the way drivers both control and interact with their physical driving environments and their vehicles.
Nvidia faces "favorable" GPU trends going into 2016
Strong performance in 2015 due to gaming segment
According to a latest report from MKM Partners, Nvidia's target stock price should rise due to an increase in gameing segment revenue.
Carrizo APU will go Zen this year
AMD roadmap leaked onto Twitter
An AMD roadmap which has been leaked onto Twitter shows 2015's Carrizo APUs will be followed up by Zen APUs sometime this year.
Virtual Reality might kick-start the PC market
Current PC's don't have the spec
Before Christmas we were saying that the reason the PC market is in the dole-drums is because there is nothing around which would lead you to need to upgrade, but now it appears that there might be – virtual reality.
Rise of the Tomb Raider bundled with Geforce
From January 7 2016
After successful holiday sales, Nvidia wants to boost its January bottom line with a Rise of the Tomb Raider bundle for selected Geforce desktop and mobile cards.
Nvidia loses out in court cases
Should not have really tried it
Nvidia is probably regretting its moves to turn into a patent troll last year as they appear to have backfired terribly.
Nvidia rolls out VR-ready Geforce 361.43 WHQL drivers
With GameWorks VR 1.1 and Oculus SDK support
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Do you hate to wait for nail polishes to dry?
I SO do. That's why I almost only use Mavala nail polishes these days. I paint them on, and a couple of minutes later, I can get on with my life.
Most nail polishes, though, can take 5 to 10 minutes, if not more to dry. That may seem a very short time, but trust me, it's PLENTY of time for me to completely ruin my manicure. That's why I love quick dry drops.


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Upon Further Review 2014: Offense vs Miami
FORMATION NOTES: Hello tiny TEs. Michigan used a lot of formations where they would bring a wide receiver tight to the line to act as a blocker. Here's Chesson in what I called "pistol biggish," because it's only big-ish.
For its part, Miami ran an under front whenever presented with seven blockers for the opposition, and about 90% of the time brought a safety down late or just lined him up in the box.
This press look was not common.
Miami would roll that safety down before this snap, FWIW.
Michigan used a lot more under center stuff in this game. Under center stuff was approximately 55% of the offense after being maybe 20% against ND, and there were a lot of tight ends. Only about 40% of Michigan's snaps had 3 WRs, again way down from ND.
SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Line static: Cole/Magnuson/Miller/Glasgow/Braden. I saw Kalis in for the last drive, and I thought I saw him earlier in the game live but either I missed it in the film review or my mind was playing tricks on me. 61/67 are not easy to distinguish. Burzynski got in at the tail end at left guard.
Gardner QB; RB mostly Green, with less Smith and Hayes relegated to third down duties and some late stuff. Johnson did not appear. Mo Hurst(!) got a goal line FB snap. Showy, but a dollar says Kerridge is more effective. At TE, Butt got a little bit more time but it was still mostly Williams and Hill, with Heitzman again appearing sporadically.
Without Funchess, Darboh and Chesson were the main guys at WR, with Norfleet marginalized with a ton of 2TE sets. Damario Jones got about as much playing time than Canteen, making the first catch of the game.
[After THE JUMP: yards, eventually, and yet more infinite RB discussion.]
Upon Further Review 2014: Defense vs Miami
FORMATION NOTES: Michigan actually played their SAM linebacker extensively for the first time this year. Behold:
That is Jenkins-Stone over the slot. This mostly indicated zone coverage; almost everything indicated zone coverage, with the exception of that rolled-up boundary corner, who was often nose to nose with his man. More discussion of this in a bit.
On short yardage Michigan had this press man okie-ish look with one LB back: I called this "Okie one robber," FWIW.
Nickel packages were saved for passing downs for the most part.
SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Rotation has whittled down to an obvious starting front seven-ish with mostly obvious backups. The line is Clark/Henry/Glasgow/Beyer with Bolden/Ryan behind them and Jenkins-Stone as the SAM when they have a SAM. The primary backups are Ojemudia/Wormley/Mone/Charlton with Godin and Pipkins also fighting at the two DT spots.
The backup ILBs don't play and probably won't until Morgan gets back; Ross does spot RJS regularly.
They are still working through injury and uncertainty in the secondary, and this is a spot that will develop over time. Once Wilson is back it seems like Jeremy Clark is going to be his partner; he's gotten the most playing time of anyone so far and he seemed to be out there while Hill and Thomas rotated. Corner is still in flux but a dollar says Peppers is a boundary corner the rest of the year with Lewis your top field corner option and Countess preferred at nickel; Taylor is likely to spot Lewis and Peppers, or Lewis will spot Taylor and Peppers, to the point where calling two guys starters and one a backup is semantics.
EDITORIAL POLICY: I'm calling Frank Clark just "Clark" and Jeremy Clark "JClark." Jeremy can be just Clark next year.
[After THE JUMP: derp and darts from Miami, mostly derp.]
Upon Further Review 2014: Offense vs Notre Dame
FORMATION NOTES: We're a… shotgun spread offense with personnel exactly like Rich Rodriguez's preferred 1 RB, 1 blocky/catchy, 3 WR?
We were in this game. Take off… er… put everyone in identical uniforms and don't check to see which team has the 6'5" giant at WR and you would have no idea which team was which based on presnap alignments. Excluding short yardage and two snaps inside the Michigan 5, Michigan had 49 shotgun snaps, five from the pistol, 7 in ace and zero I-Form.
This wasn't quite as WR heavy as that would imply as you can see Kerridge split to flanker in the above shot, something that happened half a dozen times. But… yeah, it looked like a callback to 2010 minus non-scramble QB runs, of which there was one.
Michigan deployed Kerridge all over; here he's the H-back.
And they deployed a few instances of what I call "Pistol FB," which indicates there's a dude next to Gardner and a TE.
Michigan ran a version of this where the "FB" was Norfleet, once from the pistol and once from the gun. Norfleet also motioned to the backfield for a two-back look.
Now if the next time Michigan uses my preferred offensive style if they could just score some points that would be cool.
SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Line was Cole/Magnuson/Miller/Glasgow/Braden the whole way. Gardner QB obviously; Green was the starting RB and vaguely the top guy, with Smith getting close to equal time and Hayes getting some third down snaps.
WR was a rotation between Funchess, Darboh, Chesson, and Norfleet with nobody else getting in IIRC. Hill and Williams saw almost all the TE snaps save a handful Butt got early; Kerridge also played H-back frequently.
[After THE JUMP: why don't you try running INTO the hole this time?]
Upon Further Review 2014: Defense vs Notre Dame
FORMATION NOTES: Michigan spent the entire night in a nickel package save for some short yardage/goal line snaps. Notre Dame was the same passing-oriented spread they always are. It was in fact eerie how closely the teams mirrored each other in approach. Michigan would frequently press the single X receiver away from NDs twins or trips:
This is the definition of on an island: on the LOS with the safety in the middle of the field. It did not go well.
Michigan also showed a number of two-deep looks, of course.
The Frank Clark MLB thing came up a couple more times, FWIW.
And maybe Brandon should grow a mean professor beard or something, ND dominated this matchup:
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SUBSTITUTION NOTES: There was a lot less of it. In Morgan's absence Ryan and Bolden played just about every snap.
Lewis rotated in early and played the rest of the game after Taylor's early ankle issue; Hollowell played just about every snap. Countess was briefly yanked for Stribling after a couple of Will Fuller receptions, but Stribling was little better and Countess came back in. Clark and Wilson were your safeties almost he whole way; Hill got some playing time after the game was decided.
The line did see rotation, but again less than usual. The Clark/Henry/Glasgow/Beyer starters were in most of the time. Ojemudia got some early PT. Wormley spotted Henry but by the end of the game it was Godin getting snaps as Wormley tended to fall over; Glasgow went far more snaps than NTs usually do and was spotted primarily by Mone, with just a couple Pipkins snaps. IIRC Hurst did not play. Charlton got sparing time spotting Beyer.
[After THE JUMP: Somebody stop Will Fuller. Seriously. Someone put a hand on him.]
Upon Further Review 2014: Offense vs Appalachian State
FORMATION NOTES: Not a whole lot that was unusual. Michigan has changed the alignment of their backs in some shotgun sets:
I called this "shotgun deep" since the QB is still at 5 yards but the back is behind instead of parallel. I imagine they did this for the same reason the pistol exists: to give the back downhill momentum when he takes a handoff.
Conventional shotgun sets were frequent as well, as were split TEs. This is the first snap of the game and features Hill motioning from an H-back spot to the slot; he'll block for Funchess on a successful flanker screen.
Michigan would occasionally scrape up an I-Form out of whatever was laying around, like when Chesson motioned in here. This actually cut behind Chesson's force block to pick up 15.
SUBSTITUTION NOTES: OL was Cole-Magnuson-Miller-Burzynski/Kalis-Braden the whole way. Gardner obviously QB until garbage time; he got pulled a couple drives before Michigan did much non-WR substitution.
Feature backs were Green and Smith with Hayes apparently a third down option; Drake Johnson only saw garbage carries and should no longer be considered a playing time contender going forward.
At WR it was Funchess, Chesson, Darboh, and Norfleet rotating approximately equally; Canteen did not get on until late. Bo Dever is your backup slot, apparently. Tight end was mostly Hill and Williams with a bit less Heitzman sprinkled in.
[After THE JUMP: all things discussed.]
Upon Further Review 2014: Defense vs App State
FORMATION NOTES: They promised it all offseason and they delivered on it:
In your face bro. Note that this was an example of something I started calling "30 slide"*, as the linemen are basically head up on the tackles and center with Frank Clark as a sort of standup end/SAM.
*[The idea being this is a 30 front (three linemen head up on tackles and the center like a 3-4) with three linebackers slid as if they are in an under.]
Another example is even clearer:
Note that in both of these shots, the three-tech is in fact to the bottom of the screen instead of between Clark and the nose as you might expect. I had not seen this before, because Michigan doesn't run it and they weren't spread enough last year for anyone to do it against them but since Appalachian State also ran it…
this was in fact their base D probably
…and they are right in the heart of spread on spread warfare I figure it is the latest fad when you need to account for the QB in the run game. I'll get Adam to ask Mattison about it next week—unfortunately, they moved the coordinator pressers up a day so I was not educated on anything before that time came. I'll try to accelerate my UFRing process, something that is now feasible with fast downloads and the lack of TWIS on my plate.
They also of course ran a lot of standard nickel:
Michigan also debuted a weird 3-3-5-ish package with Frank Clark at "MLB":
This happened twice. On both plays Clark was running at the frontside guard on the snap, impacted him, blew him back, forced a cutback, and then no one was there. More on that later.
Michigan also played some bonafide dime snaps:
These had three DL, two linebackers, and six DBs. Generally it was Delonte Holowell getting the extra nickel snaps but that's more in the…
PERSONNEL NOTES: Deep breath. On the line it was Beyer-Henry-Glasgow-Clark to start with copious substitution. Your nominal second string based on playing time was Charlton-Wormley-???-Ojemudia, with the NT ??? a combination of Pipkins, Mone, and Hurst. Pipkins looked by far the best of those guys; I expect that NT rotation to quickly settle down into Glasgow and Pip alternating with scattered snaps elsewhere. Godin got some real PT early at 3-tech.
At linebacker, Ryan, Bolden, and Morgan seemed to get about equivalent PT. Ross got a number of snaps as the game went along as an ILB. IIRC, Jenkins-Stone only saw snaps as a nickel DE late. Gedeon and McCray got in for the last drive.
Michigan played nickel on I think literally every snap they weren't playing dime. That was Peppers spotted by Hollowell and then Hollowell after Peppers got dinged. Taylor and Countess got starters' minutes at outside CB with Lewis coming in frequently; Stribling did not see time until heavy substitution began in the third quarter. Richardson got in there too.
Starting safeties were Wilson and Clark; Thomas got quite a lot of PT starting in the second quarter, with walk-on AJ Pearson seeing the field on ASU's interminable second scoring drive.
And hamburgers: I thought I was done calling people CGordon and TGordon and just realized we have two Clarks. I tried to clarify who was who below; I imagine you can figure it out if I missed a couple.
[After the JUMP: a big table! and some other stuff.]


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FORT LAWN In five seasons at the University of South Carolina, Gamecock football coach Steve Spurrier has fashioned a 35-28 record – an average of seven wins per season.
Spurrier isn't satisfied.
"We're not happy winning seven games a season," said Spurrier, the guest speaker at the annual Lancaster County Gamecock Club meeting Monday night at the Catawba Fish Camp in Fort Lawn where the meeting drew 224 USC fans. "We still have hopes of putting a pretty talented team together.
The Lancaster Bruins rebounded in Region IV-AAAA play, taking a 9-6 home baseball win over Ridge View on Tuesday night.
Bruins' senior right-hander Trevor Hammond, who worked 6.1 innings, was the winner, posting seven strikeouts. He allowed seven hits and one walk.
Zack Rollings and Trai Sanders got the final two outs, with Sanders registering a game-ending strikeout with the bases loaded.
LHS, 1-3, 3-9, was led by Scott Mathis, who had three hits, including a first-inning two-run home run.
The dark building was filled to capacity. Loud music was in the air. Young children, teenagers and adults were all in attendance.
There was excitement, laughter, clapping, singing and one lone black light shown through the darkness. This was the scene that took place on Jan. 3, at Sand Hill Baptist Church in Kershaw.
The Sand Hill Baptist Puppet Team was presenting their black light spectacular performance. This 10-year ministry began with a small seed that God turned into a garden.
A new high-speed roller coaster could help boost the state's economy, attracting tourists and creating several jobs, said Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer at an unveiling March 26.
Bauer was one of several people to speak last week at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Carowinds' newest roller coaster, the Dale Earnhardt-themed Intimidator. Carowinds is an amusement park located near I-77 on the border of North and South Carolina.
There is a special City Council meeting at 5:30 p.m. today in the City Council chambers. The agenda includes citizen comments, employee comments and an executive session to review a grievance filed by a former city employee.
Pat Parsons, a sergeant with the Lancaster Police Department, was fired March 2 following complaints from Angela Thompson and her son, LaDarius Truesdale.
The city of Lancaster's employee grievance committee recently voted to reinstate Parsons, a former detective.
Check our Web site later for an update on the meeting.
The 56th Lancaster Motor Speedway was a beautiful Saturday night for racing with a packed house.
With heat winners Randy Smith and Chad Paxton on the front row for the limited late model race, the fans knew this race was going to be interesting with $2,000 on the line.
The University of South Carolina at Lancaster Lancers swept three games from host USC-Sumter over the weekend.
The Lancers blanked Sumter 2-0 behind Taylor Johnson, 1-2, who worked seven innings and hurled a two-hitter. He fanned five and allowed two walks.
Chip Mallory had a hit and drove in a run. David Stone drove in a run.
Dedric Mingo, Dee Jones, Taylor Johnson and Michael Cobb each had a hit. Will Simpson drilled a double.
Lancaster gained revenge in the rematch.
A week after Andrew Jackson rolled to a 12-3 road baseball win over rival Lancaster, the Bruins turned the diamond tables on the Vols.
Lancaster scored at least one run in all but two innings on the way to an 18-11 win over AJ on Saturday afternoon.
Bruins hurler Trai Sanders worked five innings and allowed three hits and two walks. He fanned four in the win. Ritchie Robinson worked the final two innings for LHS.
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH Andrew Jackson High School basketball standout Ryan Miller once again proved he belonged.
Miller, AJ's 6-5 senior star, had a solid game in the 62nd annual North-South game at North Myrtle Beach High School on Saturday afternoon.
Miller's North team took a 113-104 loss in a game, which was fast-paced from start to finish.
Miller, in 18 minutes of play, scored five points and grabbed nine rebounds, seven on the defensive end.
The Andrew Jackson Volunteers lowered the boom at Doomsday Corner on Saturday afternoon.
The Vols, 8-2, 3-0, routed the host Lancaster Bruins 12-3 for their first win over LHS in 20-plus years.
Winning pitcher Tripp Rollings went five innings and allowed an earned run, four walks and two hits. The freshman right-hander struck out four. Rollings aided the AJ effort with three hits, four runs batted in and scored a run.
Adam Eubanks hurled two frames and yielded two earned runs, three hits and two walks. Eubanks fanned two.
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Relationship Between Gestational Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes (GDM)
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On Tap Today: Pius XI presents Christmas "Lessons and Carols"
For twenty years, Pius XI High School has performed a Christmas choral concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist.
The tradition lives on tonight with the school's presentation of "Lessons and Carols," which will recount the birth of Jesus Christ, with nine Biblical readings interspersed with Christmas carols and hymns. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
Madison-formed Garbage to play first Milwaukee show since 2005
Garbage, the Madison-born band behind such '90s alt-rock hits "Push It," "Stupid Girl" and "Only Happy When It Rains," is playing the Rave April 6, its first Milwaukee show since 2005.
Beyonce lives up to hype with fierce Super Bowl halftime set
Has there ever been a 12-minute set as hyped as Beyoncé's Super Bowl halftime show Sunday? The widely publicized press conference, the Destiny's Child reunion rumors, the bold promise of live singing after that lip-synching scandal at Barack Obama's inauguration. Was there any possibility whatsoever it could live up to expectations—especially since the vast majority of Super Bowl halftime shows are bloated, ultimately forgettable diversions?
Danceworks program explores delights of 'Serendipity'
"Serendipity" is high on the list of great words we don't seem to use often enough.
Exploring the word's dictionary definition of "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise" with modern dance, the Danceworks Performance Company and a handful of guest artists built a delightful evening of dance around the word. "Serendipity" opened this weekend in the company's studio theater. »Read Full Article
Next Act's 'Clockmaker' has strong acting, too many gears
We can't turn back the clock. But can we mend what's broken, reconstructing the past's shattered pieces so that we might keep on ticking into the future?
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Source: Brian Sylvester of The Metals Report (2/12/13)
The U.S. and Europe may have been skirting the edge of financial peril for years, but Christopher Ecclestone, who is the principal and mining strategist of London-based Hallgarten & Co., told The Metals Report that the gold price should drop this year as investors realize that there's no more cause for panic. However, the frank and expressive Ecclestone has plenty of other suggestions for what's "sexy" this year (zinc, copper and specialty metals), even as he rips into "business as usual" gold majors and chastises any management team with the nerve to offer a 0.5% dividend.
The Metals Report: Christopher, you believe that the market will recover in 2013. Why?
Chris Ecclestone: We'll have a different type of recovery than we've had in the past, when everything was driven by the financial industry and house price inflation. The U.S. keeps driving along the edge of the cliff like Thelma and Louise, but never actually going over.
I get the feeling that there will inevitably have to be a recuperation. The ducks are in the row now for an industrial recuperation-probably a construction-led one. I'm not talking about a rip-roaring recovery, but there is such a delicate balance in base metals between supply and demand that it doesn't take much recovery to vacuum up lingering stocks and tip the markets back into a deficit situation again.
TMR: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a couple of hundred points away from its all-time high. Do you get the sense that retail investor sentiment has changed?
CE: Not really. Retail is the last to arrive because retail is not a believer. They're trying to reduce their debts while grappling with flaccid house prices-they're not feeling the love yet. It's been said that the equity markets lead six months ahead of the real economy. I suspect it's being driven by institutional and big money.
TMR: The ongoing stimulus measures being undertaken around the world seem to point toward a higher gold price, yet you believe that gold will drift lower in 2013. Tell us about that.
CE: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will wind down the cash supply as soon as there is stronger growth. He won't stoke the fire the way that Alan Greenspan used to do, where he actually created bubbles. Bernanke was loathe to put out all that extra cash. As soon as he sees signs of a sustained recovery, he will start to rake that money back in and take it out of circulation.
Also, the euro collapse is just not happening. It went very near to the edge early last year, but the euro has veered well away from that danger and it's just not going to happen. Anyone who wanted "apocalypse now" is disappointed. That is why the gold price is just drifting at the moment. If there's an economic recovery, there will be even greater pressure for gold to start heading south because people will perceive that the crisis is over. Feelings of crisis have definitely driven gold in the last five years.
TMR: Junior mining companies are having trouble landing financing for developing their mining projects. If the economy does improve, will it bring more financing for juniors?
CE: They're going to have to continue to wait. There will be a lot of attrition. There are just way too many gold companies out there. Quite a number of them will die off. Some of the others will refocus themselves on industrial metals instead of some totally impractical half gram-per-ton gold project.
TMR: You believe that gold majors have axed their CEOs as a means to appease shareholders, but have also maintained their "businesses as usual" attitudes. What's it going to take for the majors to generate shareholder value?
CE: Some of them have dropped their CEOs and the situation has still not gotten better. It's an ongoing ballooning of capital expenditures. Now there's deterioration in margins because of the conditions that they've made with workers and suppliers during the golden years that are unsustainable. Things will have to be tightened up. These organizations have gotten fat and lazy and axing the CEO doesn't solve that.
TMR: Are you willing to name names?
CE: I don't need to name names because virtually all of the majors are in that category. You name them, they're like that. They've had too many good years. The goal is to improve the bottom line, yet there's very little discussion of the bottom line. No one talks about price-to-earnings ratios in the gold mining world. Some of those ounces in the ground are going to stay there because the capex is rollicking out of control and projects are ending up in the freezer.
TMR: You suggest that a merger of Inmet Mining Corp. (IMN:TSX) and First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (FM:TSX; FQM:LSE) could form a major Canada-based metals producer, which is currently the exclusive territory of Teck Resources Ltd. (TCK:NYSE; TCK.A:TSX). Inmet has rejected First Quantum's offer. Is that deal going to get done?
CE: It will get done. Inmet is doomed! The dividend yield it offered has been lousy. First Quantum has a much higher valuation and dividend yield, which just goes to show what gives stock a currency to do these deals. Inmet has missed a lot of opportunities in recent years.
TMR: Will we see more of the same type of mergers?
CE: Absolutely. First Quantum could move on to be a serial deal-doer. It has been collecting other assets in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if Teck does some deals. Then there's Lundin Mining Corp. (LUN:TSX). Lundin is going to be an acquirer or an acquired entity. Companies are prowling around looking to get their hands on something like Lundin because it's well positioned in zinc. HudBay Minerals Inc. (HBM:TSX; HBM:NYSE) is another entity that should merge with someone. It had piles of cash after the slump in 2008, but failed to acquire the bargains that were lying around. It made a rather ritzy purchase in Peru of a non-producing asset-Norsemont Mining Inc.
TMR: Your model mining portfolio finished 2012 on a high note. What trends do you see that investors could piggyback on?
CE: Gold is not that great at the moment. I thought some of the producers and near-producers would have paid off a bit more, such as Eldorado Gold Corp. (ELD:TSX; EGO:NYSE), which is one of the better-managed majors. If you're not getting a dividend from a major, and there's no upside, then you might as well go for a junior where you know you're playing Russian roulette. They could either fizzle or appreciate, but at least you've got a chance that something will happen. A dull major is pretty damn dull.
TMR: How important is a dividend to you?
CE: It's important for big producers. It is actually something that the juniors should be pushing for. In Australia, for example, investors often collect their dividends from big producers and then buy juniors with the cash. The Canadian model is that the majors pay a measly dividend and keep the money, making serial overpriced bids for juniors. A yield of 0.50% is derisory. It's just to get the company on to the list of dividend payers. If a company is making $0.40/share and paying out $0.05/share, that's pathetic-that's not even worth the effort.
TMR: Are there some companies a little lower on the food chain that you're excited about?
CE: Investors should look toward specialty metals like tungsten and antimony, or base metals like lead and zinc. Those are the areas where there's a critical shortage of product and a deficiency in the construction of additional mines over the last 10 years. Zinc production will fall as some of the biggest mines in the Western world shut down over the coming year or two. They will not be replaced; the cupboard is bare. That lays out a scenario in which zinc could go from $1/pound (lb) to $1.50/lb in the space of two years. I don't see any potential for major metals to make that type of move.
TMR: What are some zinc plays that you're fond of?
CE: Some development stories were taken out in the last go round. Farallon Mining Ltd. (FAN:TSX) and Breakwater Resources Ltd. (BWR:TSX) were both taken out by Nyrstar (NYR:BSE).
The no-brainer zinc play is Lundin. I can only think of Donner Metals Ltd. (DON:TSX.V) as an up-and-coming name. Donner partnered with Xstrata Plc (XTA:LSE) in the Bracemac-McLeod project in Quebec. It is slim pickings out there.
TMR: What about industrial metals?
CE: I like Mandalay Resources Corp. (MND:TSX), which is a gold-silver-antimony play. The phenomenal recent uplift in antimony has been driving the stock. Antimony has been a much better performer than the rare earth elements have. Mandalay's stock has doubled since July-and it's very hard to find any production stock that has doubled in the last six months.
TMR: Is this a management team that will under promise and over deliver?
CE: That's what it's done. It's a pretty low-key company. It's a "by appointment only" sort of investment story that people speak about behind cupped hands. There are a lot of companies out there that talk about what they're doing and don't do anything. This company's not as aggressive in promoting its story, but it hasn't damaged its stock price at all.
TMR: Where is the future growth going to come from for Mandalay?
CE: It did recently announce that it discovered a new zone at its Costerfield mine. The potential to expand there is enormous. It wasn't focusing too much on antimony and then it realized the attractions of that metal. It's certainly the sexiest thing about Mandalay. The antimony is the key at Mandalay if gold and silver start to go down, as I expect them to.
TMR: What are some other industrial metal plays you're following?
CE: Tungsten, mainly. Tungsten has gotten prospective. There were a lot of companies lining up for the tungsten race in 2011, but 2012 proved to be difficult for financing. The tungsten price dropped from around $450/ton down to $320/ton. That took the wind out of the sails. It's still a phenomenal price for tungsten, but without financing ability, companies mothballed their projects. There's no improvement in what was a pretty dire supply dynamic because China has been restricting its tungsten exports.
TMR: How can investors play the tungsten market?
CE: Woulfe Mining (WOF:TSX.V) in South Korea has the world's former largest tungsten mine that it's reactivating.
TMR: What about fluorspar?
CE: Fluorspar has gone through a difficult period. It's linked to a whole swath of industrial applications that are not that sexy, unlike rare earths, so people didn't notice that there was a crisis brewing when China restricted its exports. A number of companies got going, one of them being Canada Fluorspar Inc. (CFI:TSX.V). It just named a major French partner, Arkema Inc. (AKE:EPA). It's brilliantly positioned right on the banks of the St. Lawrence, so it's easy to get the stuff out. It's just a case of dusting it off and bringing it to fruition again.
TMR: Will Arkema provide the kind of financing it needs to get to that point?
CE: It has provided the financing in the past.
TMR: Is there a sufficient market for what it will sell?
CE: There seems to be a good market for fluorspar, but it's linked to industrial demand, which is starting to look better. However, China is slowing down how much it's devouring and then spilling the leftovers back out into the global markets. But if activity in China picks up, it can allow Western projects to get going again-not because they'd be selling into China, but because production in China would be staying at home.
TMR: What's the earliest date that Canada Fluorspar could be shipping its product?
CE: It could be a year or year and a half. The fluorspar mining process is pretty simple because it's largely open cut and not too deep.
TMR: Are there any thoughts you would like to leave us with?
CE: Base metals require less brain work. It's easier to narrow them down and look at what's there. Specialty metals can create some interesting spikes in prices due to supply crises. But that's really hard to predict because it depends on what happens behind closed doors in Beijing regarding what could be exported in any given year.
The supply-demand continuum is constantly fluctuating, but there's been an amount of production going off-stream. There is so little is coming onstream that it looks pretty good for zinc, lead, copper and chromite. I'm less persuaded by nickel at the moment.
TMR: Thanks for speaking with us.
Christopher Ecclestone is a principal and mining strategist at Hallgarten & Co. in New York. He is also a director of Mediterranean Resources, a gold mining company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, with properties in Turkey. Prior to founding Hallgarten in 2003, he was the head of research at an economic think tank in New Jersey. Before moving to the U.S., he was the founder and head of research at the esteemed Argentine equity research firm Buenos Aires Trust Co. from 1991 until 2001. Prior to his arrival in Argentina, he worked in London beginning in 1985 as a corporate finance and equities analyst and as a freelance consultant on the restructuring of the securities industry. He graduated in 1981 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
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Bits Gnarley needs unicorns for his ark.
Ahh the same one but from different angle! Very cool photos both, Bits! Cheers :)
Ippa very perceptive of you to realize it was the same unicorn. I missed that; I thought maybe Boston was fill of unicorns. Now I learn one has a dark side!
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Skip to comments.25 years later, and AIDS is still killing
Posted on 09/28/2007 6:18:05 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
300 cases are estimated to be in Victoria area
Twenty-five years after AIDS was formally given a name, Texas and the rest of the country still fail to designate the money needed to prevent it and HIV, a Dallas representative said on Wednesday.
It's one reason why infection rates are on the rise, especially among women, Rep. Rafael Anchia, a Democrat, told the Dallas Urban League on Wednesday.
Anchia's remarks reverberated to Victoria, and to an area that's estimated to have more than 300 patients with HIV/AIDS.
"Despite the fact we've had 25 years of experience with this disease, something is wrong with how we're approaching it," Anchia said by phone, just hours after his speech. "Instead of seeing declines in infection rates, we've seen increases."
There are an estimated 1.2 million in the U.S. with HIV/AIDS, Anchia said. Almost 300,000 don't know they have it.
In Victoria, Hispanics are most at risk, a local health department manager said.
An additional 40,000 people a year are newly diagnosed with the illness nationwide, Anchia said. African American male teens and Hispanic females are most impacted.
"It's an issue of significance that's talked about too little," he said.
The representative presides over a Dallas district that is comprised primarily of minorities, a group, he said, that is made up largely of those with low incomes.
Like low-income groups in Victoria, such people often rely on free or subsidized health care.
"Federal funding has been cut, it seems, almost systematically so that fewer people are being tested for AIDS," Anchia said. "The federal dollars for testing serve low-income populations."
Paul Kelliher is the special services manager for the Victoria City-County Health Department. His staff received $114,000 in funding to counsel and test the first 1,500 people who walk through his doors over the next 16 months.
But they always need more funding, he said.
About 100 people in the seven-country Crossroads have been diagnosed HIV/AIDS, and the majority live in Victoria, Kelliher said.
But because others with HIV/AIDS have private insurance, or travel elsewhere for care, it's thought that number could be as great as 300.
Anchia believes this is disturbing, especially considering his remarks were also made on the one-year anniversary of recommendations made by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC hopes to make HIV screening routine and voluntary, a normal part of medical practice.
So, why, after 25 years, hasn't HIV/AIDS testing become routine at doctors' offices and hospitals?
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Anchia said budgetary constraints, and the stigma of the illness, are part of the problem. Most don't worry about HIV/AIDS, and instead focus on heart health and cancer.
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I think you meant seven county Crossroads area, Gabe.
Money will do squat, if you'll pardon the expression.
AIDS is virtually 100% preventable. Doesn't cost a dime, either.
Yup, bonehead.
How about the concept of keeping ones manhood out of the human orifice for getting rid of all the crap (literally) your body doesn't need.
People make choices.
Unfortunately, I think their solution involves free condoms for fifth graders and a gay awareness month.
Let me try to answer that. What good would testing do? The people who are determined to distribute aids and those who are anxious to get it will go about their business as normal (maybe that should be abnormal) without regard to test results. Now if those found with aids or HIV were to be isolated from the normal population I would support testing.
AIDS is Reagans fault /sarcasm
"AIDS" was originally called "GRID", which was an acronym for "Gay Related Immune Deficiency". It originally manifested itself in an extremely high rate of Kaposi's Sarcoma, an otherwise very rare skin cancer.
but it is not politically correct, and even discriminatory against some sexual preference codes to promote the preventative care that is guaranteed to remove it from society.
Funny thing, but this is the single most preventable disease there is. No drugs, No sex until marriage and remain monogamous.
If this prescription is followed one has reduced one's exposure to a minuscule risk. If society as a whole would promote this prescription, AIDS would be defeated in a generation, not to mention most venereal disease, bastard children, gang violence, the welfare crisis, and etcetera.
Like silly children we rebel against that which God has told us is good, that which we can see with our own eyes. Yet we go on despite that knowledge because sexual freedom must be protected at all costs.
I guess you all have forgotten what it is like to be a teenager in lust, thinking you will live forever and that nothing will hurt you. Crosses all lines, Christian and Buddhists, young and old, rich and poor.
Be careful before you make such prideful announcements - you may have to deal with it in your own families.
Why even have compassion on newborns?
A doctor, dentist or health worker can contract it from a patient.
People can get AIDS from a blood transfusion.
A person can go out and mess around ONE TIME and contract AIDS.
Guess you think people should be celebate Nuns or they deserve whatever happens to them.
Guess if you get heart disease from eating fast foods or a sedentary life style, or skin cancer from spending too much time at the beach etc etc, nobody should have any compassion for you either. Right.
Alternate headline: 25 years later and the fudgepacking continues unabated.
You wouldn't say that if you were one of the poor families in 3rd world countries being helped by US AIDS funds.
Money has produced meds that allow people with AIDS to live and remain productive and contributing members of society for many many years now.
Money has helped millions around the world including children left without parents because of this disease.
God bless George Bush and other world leaders who've had the compassion to contribute funds toward battling this disease around the world.
Kill one Typhoid Mary today or a million twenty years from now...
"Sit down and shut up" works pretty good.
"Texas and the rest of the country still fail to designate the money needed to prevent it and HIV,"
The easiest disease in the world to prevent....and it doesn't cost a dime.
Yes,but it's quite rare...so rare as to be almost unworthy of mention.
People can get AIDS from a blood transfusion.
Although that was once a fairly common method of transmission,today it's even more rare than transmission to health care workers.
A person can go out and mess around ONE TIME and contract AIDS.
So that one bit of "fun" was worth a fatal disease? Are we so animalistic that we can't over-rule our hormones in order to save our lives?
Guess you think people should be celebate Nuns or they deserve whatever happens to them.
Every one of our actions have consequences.Some actions have more serious consequences than others.
Transmission rate to health care workers is negligible...
Seroconversion rates are on the order of <1% with an infected needle stick.
"Women and children (and men who behave like women and children) hardest hit."
Actually, the political elites in those third world countries have figured out how to milk the bovine American government by calling lots of things "AIDS" that have nothing to do with it. More AIDS = more money.
Meanwhile the "poor families" stay poor because 1) they don't get the money, and 2) outside aid actually prevents the development of local infrastructure.
So that one bit of "fun" was worth a fatal disease?
Of course not.
Going to the beach is not worth catch skin cancer either.
That doesn't give self-righteous pharisees the right to preach the condemnation and prohibition of any compassion towards those who caught a disease due to a lapse in judgement during their life time.
I STILL feel compassion toward those who catch cancer from smoking, heart disease from eating fast food and AIDS from promiscuous behavior.
And I hope God shows me mercy and compassion for my shortcomings.
100's of years and somethin' is wrong with the way cancer patients are being treated.
Hepatitis C gets far less money thrown at it and kills as many or more. Anyone who went through the air gun injection gauntlet in the military should get checked.
OMG. This is horrible.
How can this be? Wasn't Clinton the President from 1993-2001? Surely he could have cured AIDS... right?
I've gotten the feeling that this is not so. When I was 20 or 21 I came down with mono. This has been about 20 years ago. My family doctor did the blood test and told me I tested positive for mono. I then asked him if I should be tested for aids just in case...since the symptoms to me seemed to be the same.
He stared right into my eyes for a few seconds and said "are you gay?" I said no. He said "have you ever been gay?" I said no. He said "Have you ever experimented with being gay?" I said no. He said "Do you use drugs?" I said no. He said "Do you sleep around alot?" I said no. He said "There's no reason to be tested then." I said "But they say it only takes one time unprotected to get it". He said "no, forget about it. You don't have it. Quit being a hypochondriac".
He then went on to explain to me that regular people just don't get aids. It takes a combination of poor choices to get it. First you need a lifestyle that depletes your immune system, then you need a promiscuous sex life. That means you need to be an alcoholic or drug addict or someone that eats and sleeps irregularly or all of the above and also have intercourse with high risk individuals, like gays or prostitutes or strippers or such. He also told me that every time you get tested for something it goes in your permanent record and your insurance judges you accordingly regardless if you tested positive or negative.
So I never got tested. Apparently he was right since I'm still very much healthy.
AIDS is still killing because some people are still doing the stupid things that will get them infected. I have great sympathy and compassion for the innocent that gets the disease because of another's duplicity. Not so much for these guys that go to barebacking parties.
Do you still feel compassion for those same people when they accuse you of not working to prevent their infection, have public marches in our biggest cities proclaiming this, infer that this indifference is part of a conspiracy to destroy them, and then STILL insist on their right to CONTINUE in their promiscuous behavior, all the while demanding that YOU foot the exorbitant medical bill for their life-long treatment?
This article is talking about Texas, a developed, educated society in which AIDS awareness is extant in public discussion. The article is written for the Advocate, a pro-gay, activist rag.
Yikes! I had mono too. When I was 18 or 19 years old. I was walking around with it for weeks and didn't know what was wrong with me.
They quarantined me for over a month!
Luckily I had friends bringing me pot etc to make my time in isolation more bearable :)
He then went on to explain to me that regular people just dont get aids. It takes a combination of poor choices to get it.
With all due respect your doctor is a fool.
All it takes is ONE instance of making a "poor choice" or a lapse in judgment to contract HIV.
It was completely irresponsible of him to deny you a test when you requested it.
People can contract HIV and show NO symptoms for more than 15 years.
George Bush does not have the Constitutional authority to spend taxpayer money on AIDS or any other charity. Charitable giving is a private function, not a government function. The government takes from you by force of arms, penalty of imprisonment or death - that taking oughtn't to be for merely getting the afflicted to smile for the camera.
That's too bad.
He did it anyway.
Umm Hmmm.
If people kept their business in their pants for a while and avoided drugs, would AIDS continue to increase or would AIDS begin to decrease?
AIDS is not a germ or a virus. AIDS is an infection passed on via bad behavior. People who suffer AIDS have contracted it because they have really poor behavior patterns.
Are you a doctor? Or are you just clairvoyant regarding mamelukesabre's doctor's relationship and familiarity with his patient? Mamelukesabre explained that he was exhaustively interview by his doctor, who had already examined him and diagnosed him with mono.
The point is well made that those who contract AIDS are overwhelmingly promiscuous, having tens or even hundreds of different partners, often anonymous, in short spans of time, and live otherwise very risky lifestyles. Multiple risk factors ARE key to getting the disease.
And it's all Ronald Reagan's fault!!! Reagan personally raped and infected every gay man on the planet!
"I guess you all have forgotten what it is like to be a teenager in lust, thinking you will live forever and that nothing will hurt you. Crosses all lines, Christian and Buddhists, young and old, rich and poor.
Be careful before you make such prideful announcements - you may have to deal with it in your own families."
You omitted one, maybe two, word(s) from your righteous sermon. Pick from the following:
a. gay
b. drug-user
Do you still feel compassion for those same people when they accuse you of not working to prevent their infection, have public marches in our biggest cities proclaiming this, infer that this indifference is part of a conspiracy to destroy them, and then STILL insist on their right to CONTINUE in their promiscuous behavior, all the while demanding that YOU foot the exorbitant medical bill for their life-long treatment?
No. Just because I have compassion for people who contract AIDS doesn't mean I am under any illusions that I OWE THEM ANYTHING.
People who get themselves into bad situations because of their own poor choices in life have only themselves to blame.
But it STILL doesn't do my heart any good to see people suffer for their mistakes,
ESPECIALLY since I am SO dependent on God's mercy to rescue me from my own foolish choices in life.
Here is all you need to know to not get HIV / AIDS:
So, if you can successfully follow those steps, you should be free and clear of HIV and AIDS. Feel free to reproduce the above and distribute it: I claim no copyright!
What's the HIV/AIDS rate among monogamous, heterosexual, non drug users?
"Texas and the rest of the country still fail to designate the money needed to prevent it ......"
MONEY????? Hell, no money is required.....simply tell the queers to sit down and keep their mouths shut! ;-\
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The Iron Heelby Jack London
The Iron Heel treads upon the faces of the poor. Determined to crush the working class at any cost, the brutal dictatorship incites a paranoid atmosphere of witch-hunting hysteria, employing gangs of thugs to stifle free speech. Avis Everhard, wife of a labor leader, narrates this gripping novel. In moving terms, she reveals the wretched poverty that props up aristocratic wealth and recounts the desperate struggles of revolutionaries against the insidious rise of the Iron Heel. George Orwell hailed this prescient tale as "a truer prophecy of the future than either Brave New World or The Shape of Things to Come." Written more than a century ago, Jack London's harrowing vision of class warfare and a totalitarian state anticipates the development of fascism, the spread of terrorism, and the oppressive forces of government surveillance and authority. A short novel with remarkable depth, it continues to resonate with modern readers as both a satire and a warning.
The Iron Heelby Jack London
The novel is based on the fictional "Everhard Manuscript" written by Avis Everhard which she hid and which was subsequently found centuries later. In addition, this novel has an introduction and series of (often lengthy) footnotes written from the perspective of scholar Anthony Meredith.
The Iron Heelby Jack London Jonathan Auerbach
Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London's The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published nearly a hundred years ago, it anticipated many features of the past century, including the rise of fascism, the emergence of domestic terrorism, and the growth of centralized government surveillance and authority. What begins as a war of words ends in scenes of harrowing violence as the state oligarchy, known as "the Iron Heel," moves to crush all opposition to its power. First time in Penguin Classics Includes introduction and explanatory notes
Jack London The Dover Readerby Jack London
"I am loving these Dover editions. Informative and interesting. I highly recommend them, and hope they continue to publish titles like these." -- Januarygray.netNovelist, journalist, and social activist Jack London (1876-1916) rose from abject poverty to international fame as the bestselling, highest-paid, and most popular author of his era. London created a substantial body of work in his short life, drawing upon a diverse array of experiences that ranged from cannery worker and railroad hobo to sailor and prospector.Stories of hardship amid the wilderness and on the open sea typify London's works, and this inexpensive, single-volume edition features three of his complete novels -- The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf. Short stories of adventure in the Klondike and elsewhere include "The White Silence," "In a Far Country," and "The Law of Life."
Jack London on Adventureby Jack London
Jack London was a writer, but more than that, he was an adventurer who wrote about his adventures. Growing up working class in San Francisco, London diligently scrounged out a life riding trains, pirating oysters, working on a sealing ship, and working at a cannery, all the while using his free time to hole up in libraries reading novels and travel books. A harrowing voyage aboard a sealing ship, where he and the crew were almost killed by a typhoon, convinced him to start writing stories. After a brief time on the east coast and a stint in the Yukon mining for gold, London returned to California. He published his stories in the Overland Monthly, which prompted him to become more disciplined in his writing. He published numerous novels over the years, including The Call of the Wild, a story about a dog who becomes a sled dog in the Yukon, The People of the Abyss, which heavily critiqued capitalism, and John Barleycorn, a memoiristic novel that detailed his struggles with alcoholism. With quotes from the array of Jack London's writings, readers will get a sense of his life as well as a keen yearning for undertaking their own adventures.
The Jacket: (Star-Rover)by Jack London
Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin for murder, defies the will of prison officials who try to break his spirit with "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to tortuously compress the whole body. To survive, Standing discovers how to enter a trance state in which he walks among the stars and experiences past lives.
Jerry of the Islandsby Jack London
JERRY is an Irish terrier, a dog of many adventures. Born on one of the Solomon Islands, he early comes to know as master the man called Skipper. Skipper to Jerry is a god. To others he is captain of a boat engaged in the trade of labor which is supplied for the South Sea plantations. The calling is a dangerous one, and when Skipper meets his fate, Jerry falls into the hands of a head-hunting chief and a cannibal village becomes his home. Chance saves him from the cooking-pot and he escapes into the wilds. But unlike another dog hero, Jerry does not revert to the primitive. The yacht Ariel comes to his rescue, and in Harley and Villa Kennan, Jerry finds two gods worthy of a dog's worship.
John Barleycornby Jack London
John Barleycorn is an autobiographical novel by Jack London dealing with his enjoyment of and struggles with alcoholism. It was published in 1913. The title is taken from the British folksong "John Barleycorn."
The Kempton-Wase Lettersby Jack London
These letters embody the suppositious correspondence of a poet and a scientist. The letters of both are in a somewhat high-flown and impossible manner. Although the subjects treated, love and marriage, are scarcely new, the letters contain some keen speculation, and some which is interesting.
Klondike Talesby Jack London
As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London's best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversity that awaited men in the brutal, frozen expanses of the Yukon, and the extreme tactics these adventurers and travelers adopted to survive. As Van Wyck Brooks observed, " One felt that the stories had been somehow lived- that they were not merely observed- that the author was not telling tales but telling his life. " This edition is unique to the Modern Library, featuring twenty-three carefully chosen stories from London's three collected Northland volumes and his later Klondike tales. It also includes two maps of the region, and notes on the text.
Lessons from the Hanoi Hiltonby Jack London Peter Fretwell Taylor B. Kiland
Why were the American POWs imprisoned at the "Hanoi Hilton" so resilient in captivity and so successful in their subsequent careers? This book presents six principles practiced within the POW organizational culture that can be used to develop high-performance teams everywhere. The authors offer examples from both the POWs' time in captivity and their later professional lives that identify, in real-life situations, the characteristics necessary for sustainable, high-performance teamwork. The book takes readers inside the mind of James Stockdale, a fighter pilot with a degree in philosophy, who was the senior ranking officer at the Hanoi prison. The theories Stockdale practiced become readily understandable in this book. Drawing parallels between Stockdale's guiding philosophies from the Stoic Epictetus and the principles of modern sports psychology, Peter Fretwell and Taylor Baldwin Kiland show readers how to apply these principles to their own organizations and create a culture with staying power.Originally intending their book to focus on Stockdale's leadership style, the authors found that his approach toward completing a mission was to assure that it could be accomplished without him. Stockdale, they explain, had created a mission-centric organization, not a leader-centric organization. He had understood that a truly sustainable culture must not be dependent on a single individual.At one level, this book is a business school case study. It is also an examination of how leadership and organizational principles employed in the crucible of a Hanoi prison align with today's sports psychology and modern psychological theories and therapies, as well as the training principles used by Olympic athletes and Navy SEALs. Any group willing to apply these principles can move their mission forward and create a culture with staying power-one that outlives individual members.
La Llamada de lo Salvajeby Jack London
Includes The Wolf and the Dog (El lobo y el perro), The Man Who Was a Horse (El hombre que se sentia caballo), Unsentimental Mother (Madre insesible), and Long Duel (El Largo duelo), and excerpts from the introduction of The Hidden life of Dogs.
La llamada de lo salvaje y otros relatosby Jack London
El escritor norteamericano más leído fuera de los Estados Unidos, había sido marino, pescador y contrabandista, fue militante comunista e incluso agitador político. La contradicción individualidad-colectividad está presente en su obra. Sostenía que el ser humano no es bueno por naturaleza. Su escritura posee un vigor primitivo que aún conmueve, un lirismo acorde con el esplendor de la Naturaleza intacta. Muchos de sus relatos, entre los que destaca su obra maestra, La llamada de lo salvaje (traducida como 'de la selva' y 'de la naturaleza' 1903), fue el comienzo de una saga de héroes que mostraban una nobleza inquebrantable frente a las fuerzas de la Naturaleza y la condición humana. Ha sido traducido a numerosas lenguas.
El lobo de marby Jack London
El lobo de mar, un clásico de la literatura norteamericana y una de las mejores novelas de aventuras de todos los tiempos, dramatiza el fortuito encuentro entre dos personajes que representan visiones opuestas de la condición humana. Humphrey van Weyden es un joven intelectual, refinado e idealista que, tras naufragar a bordo de un ferry en aguas del pacífico, es rescatado por un barco dedicado a la caza de focas y capitaneado por Wolf Larsen, el prototipo de "lobo de mar", cruel, despiadado y sin escrúpulos. Sometido a su tiránica autoridad, el joven descubrirá la dureza y la impiedad de un mundo primitivo que sin embargo le ayudará a consumar su aprendizaje moral.
Lost Faceby Jack London
At his peak, about the time this collection was first published in 1910, Jack London was the highest-paid and perhaps the most popular living American writer. Lost Face consists of seven short works, including the title story and his finest and best-known short story, "To Build a Fire." Now in paperback for the first time, this collection appears as it was originally published.Jack London grew up in poverty, educated himself through public libraries, and, in addition to writing, devoted his life to promoting socialism (although he eventually resigned from the Socialist Party). Despite his financial and critical success, in the end he succumbed to alcoholism and depression and died of a drug overdose. During the 1898 gold rush, London traveled to the Klondike to seek his fortune. It was this experience that had the most profound effect on his writing. Not only did he mine the far north environment for subject matter (and all the stories in Lost Face take place in the Yukon), but his laconic style drew upon its cold harshness and loneliness, where people and beasts had to work together or against each other for survival. London's stories are treasured for their insights into the psychology of both people and animals--particularly dogs--and Lost Face is a brilliant collection of some of the finest examples of London's craft.
Lost Faceby Jack London
Lost Face is a collection of seven short stories by Jack London. It takes its named from the first short story in the book, about a European adventurer in the Yukon who outwits his Indian captors' plans to torture him.
Lost Faceby Jack London
Jack London, the novelist, the writer of short stories, merits respect, for he is a powerful artist in the field where he found fame. He is best known by his stories of life in the frozen and savage North. His interpretations are characterized by brutal vigor. They are rich in the element of man and nature.
Love of Life, and Other Storiesby Jack London
This is a collection of short stories of Jack London. The book contains a total of eight short stories a couple of which are rare to find. All the stories are based on the Gold Rush adventures in far north and Klondyke in the early 1900s.
Love of Life: And Other Storiesby Jack London
Under this title the author has grouped eight short stories. The tale which gives the book its name is a description of a man dying in the wilds of the Northwest by slow starvation. The concluding story, "Negore, the Coward," relates to the old days of the Russian occupancy of Alaska, and shows what a man will do to retain a woman's love and wipe from his name an undeserved affix.
Martin Edenby Jack London
London has lost nothing in power. He has gained in sweetness. There is something brutally strong in Martin Eden. Then there is a gentler background. Someone says Martin is London's self. Maybe in part. Maybe wholly. Martin Eden is concretely explicit and yet potently symbolistic. Here was a man who undertook to civilize himself and only half succeeded. And here also a woman who undertook to uncivilize herself, only half succeeded. How the spirit grew in Martin, and how the flesh grew in Ruth, will bear looked at frankly from both sides.
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PANTON — Panton selectmen have in recent months been overseeing a number of projects to town properties, many to completion.
The most prominent, paving of much of Panton Road, was completed prior to their Oct. 2 meeting. The town also was set to review bids on Oct. 3 for an upgrade of the Dead Creek Bridge, but that meeting was rescheduled.
The highway department also improved a stretch of West Road and installed surveillance cameras at the town garage to help deal with what town officials called persistent theft problems.
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BRISTOL — Heading into the second overtime of Tuesday's first-round Division II playoff game in Bristol, the Rice and Mount Abraham Union High School boys' soccer teams had played 195 scoreless minutes this fall, a 0-0 tie at Rice on Oct. 5 and a tense 80 minutes of regulation and then Tuesday's 15-minute first overtime.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School football team put a rain-soaked exclamation point on its regular season on Friday, Oct. 19, when the Tigers dominated visiting Champlain Valley, 35-7, to enter the Division I playoffs with a 5-3 record and the No. 5 seed.
All the D-I quarterfinals are set for this Friday at 7 p.m. The Tigers will play at No. 4 Rutland (5-3). The winner of that game will meet the winner of No. 1 Hartford (8-0) and No. 8 South Burlington (4-4) the following weekend.
SWANTON — Middlebury Union High School junior Max Moulton won the NVAC small schools boys' cross-country title on Saturday at Missisquoi, and eight other runners from Mount Abraham, Vergennes and MUHS posted top-20 finishes to highlight local teams' efforts.
Overall, the Tiger boys took third with 77 points behind Missisquoi (39) and Rice (74), followed by BFA-Fairfax (87), Milton (151), VUHS (160), Spaulding (172), Richford (179) and Mount Abe (233).
ADDISON COUNTY — Middlebury fell in its Division I first-round game Tuesday as the high school field hockey playoffs opened, while in D-II Mount Abraham and Otter Valley will take the field for Friday quarterfinals.
The No. 9 Tigers' quest for a second-straight D-I crown ended with a 3-1 loss at No. 8 Mount Mansfield on Tuesday. Tiffany Danyow's late first-half goal tied the game at 1-1, but the 6-7-2 Cougars scored twice in the second half for the victory. Goalie Baily Ryan was credited with 11 saves for the 1-12-1 Tigers.
MIDDLEBURY — On Monday morning it became official: The Middlebury Union High School boys' soccer team made history this fall by earning the top seed in Division I for the first time in program history.
At 12-1, the Tigers earned a quality point rating in the Vermont Principals' Association standings of 4.077 to edge out No. 2 Champlain Valley, which earned a quality point rating of 4.071 with a 12-1-1 record.
MIDDLEBURY — The Mount Abraham Union High School girls' soccer team pulled out a key win on Saturday, 2-0, over host Middlebury in a hard-fought contest played on Middlebury College's turf field.
The Eagles finished 8-4-2, and the points they earned from the win moved them (unofficially) up to fifth in the D-I standings; a loss could have dropped them to eighth.
MIDDLEBURY — Beth Dow went from being a happy dog owner to a volunteer that plays a key role in helping others in the area adopt rescue dogs.
Four years ago, the Middlebury resident and husband Steve — animal lovers who now have two dogs, six cats and two horses at their Route 116 home — were looking to add a dog through petfinder.com, a web site at which many rescue organizations list animals available for adoption.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School football team put a rain-soaked exclamation point on its regular season on Friday, when the Tigers dominated visiting Champlain Valley, 35-7, to enter the Division I playoffs with a 5-3 record and — according to several sources — the No. 5 seed.
The Tigers are expected to play at No. 4 Rutland (5-3) on Friday, with the winner of that game facing either undefeated No. 1 Hartford or No. 8 South Burlington (4-4) the following weekend.
FERRISBURGH — The Ferrisburgh selectboard has yet to find a buyer for the town-owned 34.9-acre parcel at the junction of Routes 7 and 22A, but it recently met in a half-hour executive session with one interested party.
Minutes of the Oct. 2 meeting indicate that the board met behind closed doors with, among others, property listing agent Matt Tedder of Pomerleau Real Estate and Chad Farrell of Encore Redevelopment.
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Baseball players are not the only people who put their skills on display at the ballpark. Home runs and foul balls also give fans a chance to get in on the act and show off their abilities.
Every season, a number of impressive grabs are made by the fans. Some of them use gloves, others use their bare hands, and a few have even caught balls in their beer.
There was no shortage of great grabs by fans this season. Here are the top five plays made by those in the stands.