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Klason lignin of four different types of tropical hardwoods and rattan was studied using rT-IR spectroscopy. There were observable differences in the rT-IR spectra of the lignin studied. Lignin from the more durable and more resistant wood were found to contain less guaiacyl groups than that from the softer and less resistant wood. 77re strength and resistance of the wood might be related to its lignin content.
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MANCHESTER Mary Bunny Dillmann of Manchester, Vt., died peacefully on Feb. 11, 2013, surrounded by the love of her three daughters.
Bunny was born July 28, 1915, in Middletown, N.Y., daughter of the late Raymond and Mary Fuller. She graduated from Skidmore College in 1937 and married Fritz Dillmann, architect, in New York City in 1938, where she worked in public relations. During WWII, she held similar positions in Washington, D.C., while her husband served in the U.S. Armys 10th Mountain ski troops.
The Dillmanns moved to Manchester in 1945. Bunny was active in many community organizations, including the Dorset Players, the Southern Vermont Arts Center, Bromley Ski Club, United Counseling Service and the Manchester Welfare and Nursing Association. Quality education was especially important to her, leading to her involvement in the PTA, serving as president at the local and state level.
Bunny was a feature writer for the Bennington Banner in the 1960s. Her deep love of reading led to her earning a masters in library science and her appointment as school librarian at the Flood Brook School in Londonderry in the early-1970s. She later spent 20 years at the Manchester landmark, the Johnny Appleseed Bookstore.
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Marketing professor Tomkovick retires, to be recognized at Dec. 22 commencement
In 1990, Charles Tomkovick, a graduate student from Texas A&M, applied for an assistant professor of marketing position in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Included with his application was a letter of recommendation from his major professor, Dr. Paul Busch, professor of marketing at Texas A & M. About Tomkovick, Busch wrote
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Tomkovick got the job. And he became a star, as Busch predicted, an outstanding teacher who inspired thousands of students who sat in his marketing classes the past 20 years. On Saturday, December 22nd, Tomkovick will be awarded the university's medallion and receive the title of professor emeritus of management and marketing from Interim Chancellor Gilles Bousquet at the university's morning commencement ceremony.
"Coming to UW-Eau Claire to work with our outstanding students, faculty and staff was one of the best and luckiest decisions I ever made," said Tomkovick. "The students we serve here are the best of the best, and it has been an amazing honor to serve them these past 20 plus years."
Tomkovick taught undergraduate and graduate courses in buyer behavior, marketing principles, promotion, personal branding, marketing management and service operations management for the Department of Management and Marketing, and marketing for entrepreneurs and small business owners for UW-Eau Claire Continuing Education. He engaged dozens of students in collaborative research, instilling in them a love for scholarly inquiry. In the summer when he wasn't under contract to UW-Eau Claire, Tomkovick often taught at Texas A & M. In 2011 and 2012, he was one of two faculty members to lead Texas A & M students on a summer international business study tour of England, France, Monaco, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. Students at both universities speak of Tomkovick with great affection, mentioning his commitment to teaching, enthusiasm for learning, and personal interest in them and their activities.
Tomkovick also used his talents to help others become better teachers. He was a charter member of UW-Eau Claire Network for Excellence in Teaching Council and was a mentor to new faculty members in the Department of Management and Marketing. He was active in several national professional organizations focused on marketing education and student success.
He has received many awards throughout his academic career including the UW-Eau Claire Excellence in Teaching award, which he received twice. He was nominated three times by the university for the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) U.S. Professor of the Year award.
Outside the university community, Tomkovick was perhaps best known for the Super Bowl advertising research he and UW-Eau Claire professor of marketing Rama Yelkur began in 1999. Their work has been cited in national media such as AdWeek, Advertising Age, CNN Money, Kiplinger, LiveScience, New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. Tomkovick and Yelkur frequently collaborated with undergraduate students on these studies which they presented at national professional conferences.
Tomkovick retired from the university in November 2012 to take on the full time challenge of battling brain lining cancer. He continues to conduct research and recently received the 2012 Marketing Education Review Best Article of the Year award with co-author Scott Swanson, UW-Eau Claire associate professor of marketing.
"Chuck will always be remembered for the positive impact he has had on literally thousands of students," said Timothy Vaughan, UW-Eau Claire College of Business interim associate dean and past chair of the Department of Management and Marketing. "But his true legacy will be the unique manner in which he did so. Chuck did not simply teach marketing. With a genuine personal interest in every student he encountered, Chuck shared his relentless positive energy and life philosophy in a manner that simply made them better people. He is a very special individual, and his impact will continue in the inspiration he provides to us all."
Tomkovick received a PhD in marketing from Texas A& M University (1993), master of business administration and master of science degrees in marketing and industrial engineering from UW-Madison (1982), and a bachelor of arts degree in business administration and psychology from Carthage College (1976). His resume also includes stints as sales promotion manager for Outboard Marine in Waukegan, IL (1975 to 1980), director of marketing services for Parker Pen in Janesville, WI (1975 to 1980) and general manager of Vie de France in Houston, TX (1986-1987).


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1943 was originally promised for PS3 users at E3, but when Battlefield 3 released, it was nowhere to be found. EA quietly confirmed there was no free game on Twitter, angering fans and people who don't like being lied to. Eventually, a lawsuit was thrown EA's way. Sad it had to come down to legal threats in order to make the company fulfill a promise, but it worked.
Now if only we could get EA to stop being such a penis about everything else.
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"R.J. takes an enormous amount of pride in owning these two properties," Lawrence says. "They're not the best buildings on the block. But he paid them off and paid the taxes for 40 years. It's an accomplishment. He's a survivor. He should have the opportunity to live there until he is in a position to sell it."
"We've tried to be fair with the Harrises," said Frydland. "I know they've been in that house a long time and it means a lot to them."
On Tuesday, the building inspectors will report in court on the repairs so far. The judge will hear the city's opinion, and if he thinks the repairs are going well, Mr. and Mrs. Harris can continue to live in the home as they consider their next step.
"The city has loosened the reins since they ordered him out," Lawrence says. "But R.J.'s got to continue to show progress."
On Friday, I asked several of the Harrises if they'd learned anything from the past few weeks. They said yes.
They see more clearly how they appear to newcomers and have thought about how they might adjust. They've acknowledged that owning a house involves more than keeping your taxes paid, even if paying the taxes is why you can't afford to fix your house.
And despite everything, even knowing some neighbors want them gone, they still love their neighborhood.
"I really don't know nowhere else I could fit in," Mr. Harris said. Then he waved a hand up Sheffield. "Though if I could find me something pretty nice up that way, I would be all right."
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"An affront to democracy [and] an affront to the rule of law." Brazilian State Deputy Marcelo Freixo, himself a victim of numerous death threats for his work investigating and denouncing criminal gangs, speaking of the killing of Judge Patrícia Acioli
On 11 August 2011, Judge Patrícia Acioli was shot 21 times outside her home in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, by members of the Military Police. Her long track record of presiding over criminal cases implicating Brazilian police officers in human rights violations had made her a target of numerous death threats. In October, 11 police officers, including a commanding officer, were detained and charged with her killing. It was reported that, at the time of her death, Judge Acioli had been presiding over the investigation into allegations of extrajudicial executions and criminal activity by the policemen involved. Her death was a serious blow to the human rights movement in Brazil, but her tireless pursuit of justice remains an inspiration to countless others who, like Judge Acioli, refuse to let human rights violations go unchallenged.
The demand for human rights resounded throughout the region during 2011 in the national courts, the Inter-American system and on the streets. The calls for justice from individuals, human rights defenders, civil society organizations and Indigenous Peoples continued to gain strength, frequently bringing people into direct confrontation with powerful economic and political interests. At the heart of many of these conflicts were economic development policies that left many, particularly those living in poverty and marginalized communities, at increased risk of abuse and exploitation.
The demand for justice and an end to impunity
Many human rights cases made slow progress, obstructed by the absence of meaningful access to justice, a lack of independence in the judiciary, and a willingness among some sectors to resort to extreme measures to avoid accountability and to protect vested political, criminal and economic interests. Difficulty in pursuing respect for rights was often exacerbated by threats against and killings of human rights defenders, witnesses, lawyers, prosecutors and judges in countries such as Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras and Venezuela. Journalists trying to expose abuses of power, human rights violations and corruption were also frequently targeted in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In some countries, however, despite obstacles and frequent setbacks, there were significant advances in the investigation and prosecution of past human rights violations and a number of former de facto military rulers and senior commanders were convicted and sentenced to prison terms.
In Argentina, Reynaldo Bignone, a former army general, and Luis Abelardo Patti, a politician and former police officer, were both sentenced in April to life imprisonment for murder, abduction and torture carried out in the town of Escobar during the 1970s. In October, former navy captain Alfredo Astiz and 15 others were sentenced to prison terms of between 18 years and life for their role in 86 crimes against humanity during the 1970s. Their victims had been abducted and held at a secret detention centre in a Buenos Aires naval school (the Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada, ESMA) where some died under torture while others were flung to their deaths from aeroplanes. Among those killed were French nuns Léonie Duquet and Alice Domon; human rights activists Azucena Villaflor, María Bianco and Esther Careaga, co-founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo; and writer and journalist Rodolfo Walsh.
In Bolivia, the Supreme Court convicted seven former high-ranking military and civilian officials in August for their part in the events known as "Black October", which left 67 people dead and more than 400 injured during protests in El Alto, near La Paz, in 2003. This was the first time that a trial of military officials accused of human rights violations had reached a conclusion in a Bolivian civilian court. Five former military officers received prison sentences ranging from 10 to 15 years, while two former ministers were sentenced to three years' imprisonment, later suspended.
In Brazil, President Rousseff signed into law the creation of a Truth Commission to investigate human rights violations committed between 1946 and 1988. And in Chile the number of cases of human rights violations under investigation by the courts rose to its highest level yet, after a court prosecutor submitted 726 new criminal complaints and more than 1,000 complaints filed over the years by relatives of people executed on political grounds during the military government of General Augusto Pinochet.
Former President Jean-Claude Duvalier returned to Haiti after 25 years in exile to find himself the subject of a criminal investigation on the basis of complaints of serious human rights violations brought by victims and their relatives. In Colombia, retired general Jesús Armando Arias Cabrales was sentenced in April to 35 years in prison for his role in the enforced disappearance of 11 people in November 1985 after military forces stormed the Palace of Justice where people were being held hostage by members of the M-19 guerrilla group. In September, Jorge Noguera, former head of the Colombian civilian intelligence service (the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, DAS), was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the killing in 2004 of academic Alfredo Correa de Andreis and for his links to paramilitary groups.
Important though these cases were, they were the exception, and impunity for human rights violations remained the norm. For example, in Colombia another former DAS director, María del Pilar Hurtado, implicated in a scandal involving illegal wire-tapping and surveillance and threats targeting opponents of former President Alvaro Uribe, continued to evade justice. She had been granted asylum in Panama in 2010.
In Mexico, legal action against those responsible for grave human rights violations during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s remained stalled. However, the Supreme Court ruled that Inter-American Court judgements against Mexico, including the requirement that alleged human rights violations by military personnel be transferred to civilian jurisdiction, were binding.
In the sphere of international justice, progress was uneven. For example, in October, the Canadian government failed to arrest former US President George W. Bush when he travelled to British Columbia, despite clear evidence that he was responsible for crimes under international law, including torture. However, in December, France extradited former de facto head of state Manuel Noriega to Panama where he had been convicted in his absence of the murder of political opponents, among other crimes.
The Inter-American human rights system
The Inter-American system, and in particular the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, came under sustained attack from several states during 2011. For example, Brazil recalled its Ambassador to the OAS in reprisal for the Commission's ruling that work on the Belo Monte dam project should be suspended until Indigenous communities affected had been adequately consulted. Worryingly, the OAS Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, openly supported Brazil's position and publicly called on the Commission to review its decision in the Belo Monte case. Subsequently, the Inter-American Commission modified the precautionary measures issued in this case, no longer requiring Brazil to suspend the project pending consultation.
Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela also voiced criticisms of the Commission, accusing it of exceeding its mandate and interfering in their sovereign rights. Ecuador and Venezuela's criticisms focused on the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression while Peru voiced serious criticism of the Commission's decision to refer a case related to alleged extrajudicial executions committed during the rescue of 71 hostages in 1997 (the "Chavín de Huántar" operation) to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
During the second half of 2011, OAS member states continued the debate over possible reforms of the Inter-American human rights system. This debate concluded with the issuing of a report that the OAS Permanent Council was due to consider in early 2012. Although the recommendations contained in the report were described as an effort to strengthen the system, in reality some of the measures proposed could have the effect of undermining its independence and effectiveness, and have a particularly serious impact on the work of the Commission and its rapporteurs.
Public security and human rights
Governments continued to exploit legitimate concerns regarding public security and high crime rates to justify or to ignore human rights violations committed by their security forces when responding to criminal activities or armed groups.
The Mexican government closed its eyes to widespread reports of torture, enforced disappearances, unlawful killings and excessive use of force by the army and, increasingly, by navy personnel, as it pursued its campaign against the drug cartels. More than 12,000 people were killed in violence attributed to criminal organizations and some 50,000 soldiers and navy marines continued to be deployed on law enforcement duties by President Felipe Calderón. There was evidence that members of the police and security forces colluded with criminal organizations in the abduction and killing of suspected members of other criminal organizations, among other crimes. The government continued to assert that abuses were exceptional and perpetrators were held to account, but in only one case were members of the military brought to justice during 2011.
On a lesser scale, a number of other countries in the region also used military personnel to carry out law enforcement duties. These included the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela, where President Hugo Chávez ordered National Guard troops onto the streets to tackle widespread violent crime.
In the face of high levels of violent crime, law enforcement practices in Brazil continued to be characterized by discrimination, human rights abuses, corruption and military-style policing operations. While certain public security projects achieved limited success in reducing levels of violence, federal government public security reforms were undermined by severe budget cuts and a lack of political will. Socially excluded communities continued to be caught between violent criminal gangs and abusive policing that often resulted in residents being treated as criminal suspects. In Rio de Janeiro the power of the milícias (militias) continued to grow. These criminal gangs, made up of active and former law enforcement agents, increased their hold on many of the poorest communities of Rio de Janeiro through violence and extortion, sustained by illicit financial activity and the creation of political power bases. The attack on Judge Acioli underlined the reach and confidence of these criminal gangs.
In the Dominican Republic, serious human rights violations, including arbitrary detentions, torture and other cruel and inhuman or degrading treatment, unlawful killings and disappearances, were committed by the police implementing a so-called "hard line policy" in fighting crime. There was evidence that in a number of cases the police had adopted a shoot-to-kill policy, rather than trying to arrest suspects, many of whom were unarmed.
Armed conflict
The long-running internal armed conflict in Colombia continued to inflict untold misery on civilian communities across the country. The human rights consequences of the fighting were particularly acute for rural Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendent and peasant farmer communities, thousands of whom were forced to flee their homes. Guerrilla groups, as well as paramilitaries and the security forces sometimes acting in collusion, were all responsible for serious human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law.
Some of the administration's legislative measures, such as the Victims and Land Restitution Law, were important first steps in efforts to acknowledge the rights to reparation of some victims and to return some of the millions of hectares of land stolen during the course of the conflict. However, the Law excluded many victims and a surge in threats and killings targeting human rights defenders, especially those working on land restitution, raised doubts about the government's ability to make good on its promise to return land to the rightful owners.
The Colombian administration's commitment to human rights and the fight against impunity was called into question by efforts to broaden military jurisdiction, which could allow members of the security forces to evade justice for human rights violations. President Juan Manuel Santos and the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces also criticized the conviction of several senior military officers for human rights violations.
Counter-terror and security
At the end of 2011, nearly two years after US President Barack Obama's missed deadline to close the Guantánamo detention facility, more than 150 men were still held there.
Hopes that the US administration would follow through on its decision, announced in 2009, to bring five detainees accused of involvement in the attacks of 11 September 2001 to trial in ordinary federal courts were dashed when the Attorney General announced in April that the five would now be tried by military commission. The administration made clear its intention to seek death sentences against these five. In another military commission case, the death penalty came a step closer in September when the charges against Saudi Arabian national 'Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri were referred on for trial as capital offences.
Impunity continued for human rights violations committed under the previous administration as part of the CIA's programme of secret detention. In June, the Attorney General announced that, with the exception of two cases involving deaths in custody, no further investigations into the detentions were warranted. This despite the fact that torture and enforced disappearance were an integral part of the secret programme and that victims included the detainees currently facing unfair trial by military commission who, if convicted, could be executed.
Indigenous Peoples
Human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples remained a serious concern despite some positive advances in the region.
In many cases, Indigenous Peoples were denied their right to meaningful consultation and free, prior and informed consent over large-scale development projects, including extractive industry projects, affecting them. Peru passed a landmark law in 2011 making it mandatory to hold consultations with Indigenous Peoples before development projects can go ahead on their ancestral lands. However, this remained the exception. Despite the fact that all states in the region had endorsed the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the rights it sets out were still far from being respected.
The failure to respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples had a negative impact not only on livelihoods, but also resulted in communities being threatened, harassed, forcibly evicted or displaced, attacked or killed as the drive to exploit resources intensified in the areas where they live. In Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico, Indigenous Peoples were forced off their lands, often violently. Excessive use of force against those demonstrating for Indigenous Peoples' rights and against development projects was reported in Peru and Bolivia. Spurious charges against Indigenous leaders were a concern in Ecuador and Mexico.
There were further signs that governments were not taking Indigenous Peoples' rights seriously or showing the political will to roll back decades of entrenched discrimination. In April, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights urged Brazil to suspend the construction of the Belo Monte dam until Indigenous communities had been fully and effectively consulted – including by having access to a social and environmental impact assessment of the project in appropriate languages – and until measures had been put in place to protect the lives of communities in voluntary isolation. Brazil argued fiercely against these precautionary measures, which were subsequently weakened by the Commission.
In Bolivia, after several weeks of protests during which scores of people were injured when the security forces used tear gas and truncheons to break up a makeshift camp, the President decided to cancel the building of a road through the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park. Indigenous protesters argued that the road had been planned in breach of constitutional guarantees on prior consultation and of environmental preservation laws.
In August, a Canadian federal audit concluded that 39 per cent of water systems in First Nations communities had major deficiencies, with 73 per cent of drinking water systems and 65 per cent of waste water systems constituting medium or high risks to health.
The rights of women and girls
States in the region failed to put the protection of women and girls from rape, threats and killings at the forefront of their political agendas. Implementation of legislation to combat gender-based violence remained a serious concern and the lack of resources available to investigate and prosecute these crimes raised questions about official willingness to address the issue. The failure to bring to justice those responsible for these crimes further entrenched impunity for gender-based violence in many countries and helped foster a climate where violence against women and girls was tolerated.
Violations of women's and girls' sexual and reproductive rights remained rife, with appalling consequences for their lives and health. Chile, El Salvador and Nicaragua continued to ban abortion in all circumstances, including for girls and women pregnant as a result of rape or who experience life-threatening complications in their pregnancies. Those seeking or providing an abortion risked lengthy imprisonment.
In other countries, access to safe abortion services was granted in law, but denied in practice by protracted judicial procedures that made access to safe abortion almost impossible, especially for those who could not afford to pay for private abortion services. Access to contraception and information on sexual and reproductive issues remained a concern, particularly for the most marginalized women and girls in the region.
Migrants: visible victims, invisible rights
Hundreds of thousands of regular and irregular migrants in a number of countries were denied the protection of the law.
In Mexico, hundreds of bodies, some identified as kidnapped migrants, were discovered in clandestine graves. The families of Central American disappeared migrants, carried out nationwide marches to press for action to locate their relatives and highlight the fate of many migrants. Central American migrants travelling through Mexico in their tens of thousands were kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed by criminal gangs, often with the complicity of public officials. In the case of irregular migrants, fear of reprisals or deportation meant they were rarely able to report the serious abuses they experienced.
Migrants' rights defenders came under unprecedented attack in Mexico, especially those working at the network of shelters providing humanitarian assistance to migrants.
In the USA, along its south-western border with Mexico, regular and irregular migrants suffered discrimination and profiling by federal, state, and local law enforcement officials. They faced discrimination when attempting to access justice and protection and encountered barriers to education and health care. Such barriers included policies to single out migrants for extra scrutiny, and the threat of being reported to the immigration authorities. Proposals for new anti-immigrant laws forced some students to drop out of school for fear their parents might be arrested. Anti-immigrant legislation in Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah faced legal challenges in federal courts.
In the Dominican Republic, regular and irregular Haitian migrants were victims of human rights violations, including mass and violent illegal deportations in which Dominicans of Haitian descent continued to be denied their right to Dominican nationality. Beatings and the separation of children from their parents were reported during deportations. Several states, including the Bahamas, failed to heed the UN's calls to stop deportations to Haiti on humanitarian grounds, given the continuing humanitarian crisis in Haiti triggered by the earthquake and cholera outbreak of 2010.
Death penalty
Forty-three prisoners were executed in the USA during the year, all by lethal injection. This brought to 1,277 the total number of executions carried out since the US Supreme Court lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in 1976. On a more positive note, however, in March, Illinois became the 16th abolitionist state in the USA and in November, the Governor of Oregon imposed a moratorium on executions in the state and called for a rethink on the death penalty.
Among those put to death in 2011 was Troy Davis. He was executed in Georgia in September, despite serious doubts about the reliability of his conviction. Martina Correia, his sister and a determined and fearless campaigner against the death penalty right up to her own death in December 2011, remains an inspiration to the many speaking out for human dignity and justice throughout the region and beyond: "The death penalty is an abomination. A denial of human dignity. It's not just based on colour and race but on ability to fight the system. I try to be a voice for the voiceless. I don't think I'm a special person, I just believe that my community doesn't only mean the people who live on my street – it means my global community. And when someone is killed in China or Uganda or Nigeria or Georgia or Texas, it kills a little of us."


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Welcome to the Heathcote Valley!
This site is for the Heathcote, Horotane or Avoca Valleys and is written up by the people who live here. Feel free to look around and see what is happening at the moment, find out what we have for sale and catch up on the local news.
Contact Us
Earthquakes in September 2010, February 2011 and after have lead us all to look to the future. People, community groups and local businesses are welcome to contact us for advice, information and support.
Heathcote Valley Community Association
Chairperson - Allan Stack hvcachch {at} gmail.com
Heathcote Village Project
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If you would like to know about our primary school, the cricket club, village garden, local sports or neighbourhood support, please see our Contacts page.
This week sees the launch of a community-driven visioning document, 'Epicentre@Heathcote', for our community of Heathcote Valley. It is an inspirational document that can be referred to for the next 5 or even 10 years as we walk into our future in this community, can stimulate locals to action about what matters to them in this community, and inform council decisions that impact this area.
The story of this document starts just over two years ago.
In the immediate days after the February 2011 earthquakes, the Heathcote community sat incapacitated and stunned. We lacked many basic needs such as water, toilets, and fresh milk, but we also lost many of our facilities, access, and structure. Most of all we craved connection.
But as the days stretched to weeks we began to find ways to move again, and over the last two years have been a community that has responded to our adversity with positivity and courage, where neighbours and strangers have become friends, where the future is being faced with creativity and a strong value on relationships and belonging. In many ways this response is not surprising given the rich culture and history of this community and these Valleys.


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Dell shares surge on privatisation talksPUBLISHED: 15 Jan 2013 07:20:14 | UPDATED: 16 Jan 2013 07:26:42PUBLISHED: 15 Jan 2013 PRINT EDITION: 16 Jan 2013
Dell is reinventing itself as a provider of computers and services to corporations and government agencies, as shipments of consumer computers plummet 21 per cent in the fourth quarter, according to IDC. Photo: AP
Dell is in talks with private equity firms on a potential buyout, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, confirming a Bloomberg report that sent its shares soaring 13 per cent to near an eight-month high.
Bloomberg reported earlier that the world's No. 3 PC maker is in talks with at least two private equity firms about going private. The discussions are preliminary and financing has not been secured, said Bloomberg, citing two people with knowledge of the matter.
Dell, which has steadily ceded market share to Hewlett Packard and China's Lenovo, declined to comment on what it called rumours and speculation.
Some analysts say taking the company private - an idea that has surfaced sporadically in past years - makes sense. It has lost 40 per cent of its value since last year's peak, and it is trying to reinvent itself as a seller of higher-margin services to corporations - an internal overhaul that might be conducted away from public scrutiny.
Others pointed to the sheer expense of such a deal, an outsized debt burden of some $US4.5 billion and murky prospects as a major player in a PC market that's dwindling with the advent of tablets such as Apple's iPad.
"The market value of Dell has come down so much that a buyout has become something that is plausible. They have about $US5 billion in net cash and also free cash flow generation that could sustain payments on debt from a leveraged buyout," said S&P Capital IQ analyst Angelo Zino.
"However, we think it's unlikely, given the sheer size of Dell and where the stock is currently trading at."
A buyout of the $US19 billion company would become one of the largest deals since the global recession.
Downward spiral
Shipments of computers by the company, now reinventing itself as a provider of computers and services to corporations and government agencies, plummeted 21 per cent in the fourth quarter, according to IDC. In the third quarter, its profit slid 47 per cent.
Overall sales of PCs over the holidays slid for the first time in more than five years, according to industry researcher IDC.
On Monday, another industry research firm, Gartner, estimated that Dell lost 2 percentage points of market share in the fourth quarter, slipping to 10.2 per cent from 12.2 per cent a year earlier
Dell's fortunes wax and wane
In 2007, billionaire chief executive Michael Dell - whose company was an early pioneer of just-in-time inventory management and online sales of custom-built computers - returned to the company he founded to revive its business.
Michael Dell revealed at a Sanford Bernstein investors' conference in 2010 that he had once considered taking private the company. Dell told investors a transformation of his company that he had hoped to effect upon his return was "incomplete".
Those comments triggered a round of speculation, but most analysts said buying out such a large company would be difficult because of the massive financing requirements.
Michael Dell now owns more than 14 per cent of the company, according to Thomson Reuters data, and last year was ranked the 22nd richest American with a fortune of $US14.6 billion.
Dell's stock soared to an intra-day high of $US12.83 in afternoon trade - the highest since May 2012 - after a brief trading suspension. It closed at $US12.29.
Its traded bonds also came under pressure over fears of a significant hike in leverage. Its 4.625 percent, 2021 bonds were trading 80 basis points wider at 210 basis points over US Treasuries, while its 2.3 per cent, 2015s were about 30 basis points wider at 88 basis points over Treasuries.
"It can be difficult to realize the full value of various corporate assets ... during transition periods, and executing on a long-term transformation as a private company could have advantages," argued ISI analyst Brian Marshall.
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Last week was another busy week in our business, with one salient highlight being gold's drop on the Eurozone's woes. How does that work? It's a bit crazy, but when the euro drops sharply against the USD, the dollar looks strong – and if the dollar is "strong," what do we need gold for?
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But failure to be the worst currency of the week is not the same as being a strong currency. We believe traders caught in the old paradigm of selling gold when the dollar rises will come to regret their short-sightedness. And as the paper-money con game continues unraveling, that regret may not be long in coming.
Meanwhile, your Casey Research metals team has taken a look at the supply side of the gold market, comparing the situation now with that leading up to the 1980 gold mania. It's an interesting context to keep in mind while you make your investment decisions.
Bottom line: We believe that a mania of epic proportions still lies ahead. No telling exactly when that train will leave the station, so we want to get on board now while the market is weak and prices are low. However, we also don't want to go all in, not because we're concerned about the eventual end game for this market, but because we want to have cash to deploy at lower prices before the mania, should a much greater correction give us the chance to do so.
By Louis James
We have reported on changes in global gold demand, from booming investment demand in Asia to European and US debt concerns that have re-solidified gold's long tenure as the ultimate safe-haven asset for turbulent times. In fact, with investment demand from private and institutional buyers continuing to grow and central banks increasing their gold reserves, total demand reached a record US$57.7 billion in the third quarter of 2011. Quite astounding.
But what's happening on the supply side of the equation?
The most important source of gold supply is mine production – which is responsible for about two-thirds of the total – followed by recycled gold. While recycled gold is the reason supply is inelastic, new production has more predictive power since it can reflect shifts in industry conditions and investor sentiment.
Starting with a bird's-eye view, take a look at global gold production since 1900.
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The 1980 gold mania occurred when gold supply had the same structure as it does today: two-thirds from production and one-third from recycled product. As the chart shows, in the 1980s, production increased after the short-lived mania came to an end, while this time around, production has already gone up (more on that below). Also, as the 1980s wore on, production grew in spite of the price falling dramatically.
History doesn't repeat exactly, but it often does rhyme, so comparing the 1970-1980 decade to the present can give us a useful context for thinking about gold today. Reviewing the data available, here are some key comparisons:
1970-1980 Gold Production
2000-2010 Gold Production
At interim peak (1970): 0.40 grams
At interim peak (2001): 0.42 grams
During mania phase (1980-1981):
Current value (2010-2011): 0.37 grams
However, gold is not a consumer good – it's not something people need to eat a certain amount of every day, so the physical quantity of gold per person in the world means less than it would for other commodities. Gold, we have long argued, is a "fear barometer" in today's world. It's valued, which means it has demand in inverse proportion to people's confidence in other forms of money. So the fact that supply has kept up with population growth does not imply that supply has – or "should have" – kept up with demand… and we can see that it hasn't in the price of gold. A major part of that is the return of investment demand, almost to levels we saw in 1980, as you can see in the chart below.
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Such decentralization has benefits: It creates flexibility and stability in the gold market. The market psychology is more diverse, making it more liquid and robust.
No Crunch Today – Crunch Tomorrow?
Your Casey Research metals team believes the supply of gold is going to tighten. Most companies have been forced to look in riskier jurisdictions and remote locations with poor infrastructure. Environmental and other regulations are multiplying and becoming more costly every year, and even in places where they are not, labor strikes and increases in taxes are taking their toll. Worldwide, mining becomes more complicated and expensive every year… and in some cases, not even worth trying. At the same time, big discoveries remain few and far between – and even when a discovery is made, it often takes up to ten years to reach production.
As they say, the low-hanging fruit has been picked: We do expect a supply crunch in the years ahead.
It's tempting to try to make an argument based on future constraints in gold supply and some of the interesting similarities between past and present conditions in that supply – they seem to point to a gold mania ahead. But it's the demand side that dominates the price of gold. Whether a shortage of gold supply from production occurs or not, demand for gold is more flexible than supply overall.
Gold is a monetary metal. If confidence in paper money evaporates the way we think it will, the flight to the safe haven of gold could swamp any conceivable glut in supply. We've no crystal ball to tell us when it will start, but we definitely see a mania coming.
And another question arises: Now that gold demand and supply are dispersed across the globe, where will the mania start? US? Europe? How about China, India, or Malaysia? Things could really start cooking with no immediately evident cause in the West at all.
Regardless of when or where the mania starts, our advice is to make sure your personal gold reserves are in place.
[Institutional investors are taking advantage of a little-known anomaly in the metals market to get positioned in gold at a steep discount. You can learn how they're doing it.]
Ernst & Young: Volumes Are Up for Junior Mining Companies' Financings
Despite the fact that mining equity financing is steadily decreasing this year, Ernst & Young analysts claim, "there is light at the end of the tunnel for junior mining companies." The firm reports that as majors have improved their financial standings and reducing debts, more room on the secondary financing markets is left for the juniors. That's bullish for many of the smaller companies we follow, but the increased liquidity won't last as long as a snowflake in a bonfire if broader global markets go into a dive as deep as we think they may soon do. For now, we continue focusing on the "buy low" side of the investment equation.
New Data Say Indian Consumers Are Becoming Investors
Due to high prices of gold jewelry products, Indian consumers are starting to buy bars and coins. In some cases, investors are repurchasing bars they'd sold at higher prices in September.
Demand for bars and coins is estimated to have risen by 30-40% since September, with the current gold weakness acting as an accelerator. Meanwhile, local banks are offering new physical gold products and adding electronic bullion exchanges.
This attitude shift makes sense, since investment-grade gold is of higher carat and certified, which makes its exchange easier and the market more liquid. Demand in China and India has been growing at a high rate this year, and with investment products entering what was traditionally the reign of jewelry products, we are looking at a new type of investor and new type of market for physical gold. Both are bullish signs for the yellow metal.
Department of Fun: Panning for Gold on the Streets of New York
Yes, on the streets of New York: take a look at the five-minute YouTube video linked to above.
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We would be remiss not to mention that many members of the Casey team will be at the Cambridge House Investment Conference in Vancouver, on January 22-23, 2012. This year we're going to be much more visible than before... with our own, spacious pavilion that fits up to 300 people. We're currently putting the finishing touches on our program to make sure something will be going on all day at the pavilion – including but not limited to free presentations by our metals and energy editors, an Explorers' League panel discussion, and our own "Best of Show" and Casey NexTen awards.
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Refillable Electronic Cigarette review uk
Halo have just launched their new Refillable Electronic Cigarette the newer version of their popular tank kit.
Refillable Electronic Cigarettes are a natural progression for people who have switched over to the e cigarette they allow for easy refilling of the nicotine liquid or e liquid as it is better known ,most Refillable Electronic Cigarettes differ in appearance to the standard types in size and shape but Halo have done a good job in keeping it looking neat and small .
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By refilling you can save extra money on your vapeing as well as being convenient it is very simple to do .
The halo kit as usual is of very high quality in build and the kit comes with everything you need in fact if you priced all the contents separately in the kit it would come to more than the asking price of this great Refillable Electronic Cigarette pack.
The e liquid (not shown) comes in two 15ml bottle a flavor of your choice one high strength and one medium.
This is dripped into one of the 5 refill cartridges that comes in the kit, and a small drop placed into the atomizer to prime ready for use (the atomizer is the component that vaporizes the nicotine content for smoking)
Refillable Electronic Cigarette for better Vapeing
Vapeing is a term used by more experienced e cigarette smokers and although a pro would probably not entertain the Halo super tank it is still a great starter kit with an even better price tag.
Halo's Refillable Electronic Cigarette battery's are of better design then the older version too in the kit you get two 650Mamp power units which are manual and you need to press the button on the unit before inhaling to get the atomizer to do its stuff .
Also in this Electronic Cigarette kit there are two atomizers.
A few words on atomizers they don't last for ever and need to be changed from time to time this you will know if you have ever refilled the disposable cartonmizors ( the refill unit that comes with normal e cigs which is designed to be thrown away after use have the atomizer build into the unit and is not cleanable and may get clogged and therefore fails to atomize properly and also becomes unhygienic)
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After charging to battery's the e liquid is dripped into the refillable cartridges, the atomizer is screwed to the battery and the nicotine filled cartridges pushed onto the atomizer the whole operation takes a few minutes and then you ready to Vape.
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Your one-time minister saying some outrageous things about 9/11,
or being married to a man who had his cigar smoked in the Oval Office?
I don't get it – surely Bill should be the persona non grata on the campaign trail?
Technorati: Clinton | Obama
It seems clinton might have both issues in her pocket:
"Mrs. Clinton continues to throw the Rev. Wright up in his face as part of her mission to keep stoking the fears of White America. Every time she does this I shout at the TV, 'Say it, Obama! Say that when she and her husband were having marital difficulties regarding Monica Lewinsky, who did she and Bill bring to the White House for 'spiritual counseling?' The Reverend Jeremiah Wright!'"
That was lifted from Michael Moore's blog on April 21.
Wow. I didn't know that! Extraordinary. So does Obama just have the grace not to mention it, or what?
Hillary has had to tell Bill to shut up more than once in this campaign. HRC is not "the working people's candidate." Not with all her financial shenanigans over the past couple of decades. I'm her "demographic" (white female, educated, over 50) and I think she's "capable" but I can't vote for her for a number of reasons, and Bill's one of them. If she's elected there will have been either a Clinton or a Bush in the White House for 24 years!!!
Obama does have the grace. He's not the savior, but he's the real change candidate.
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The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. Announces Put Option Notification For 2.375% Convertible Senior Notes
LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (NYSE:GBX) ("Greenbrier") today announced that it is notifying holders of its outstanding 2.375% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 (the "Notes") that, pursuant to the terms of the Notes and the indenture governing the Notes, they have the option to require Greenbrier to purchase, on May 15, 2013 (the "Purchase Date"), all or a portion of their Notes (the "Put Option") at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes ( $67,724,000 as of April 15, 2013), plus any accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, the Purchase Date. Greenbrier will pay for any Notes validly surrendered and not validly withdrawn with cash. If all outstanding Notes are validly surrendered for purchase, the aggregate purchase price, including accrued and unpaid interest, will be approximately $68,500,000.
The opportunity to surrender the Notes for purchase pursuant to the Put Option commences today and expires at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on May 13, 2013, which is the second business day immediately preceding the Purchase Date. Holders may withdraw any Notes previously surrendered for purchase at any time prior to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on May 14, 2013.
As required by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), Greenbrier will file a Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO with the SEC. The Tender Offer Statement will include a notice to holders from Greenbrier (the "Issuer Put Right Notice") specifying the terms and conditions of the Put Option and the procedures to exercise the Put Option, which is available through The Depository Trust Company and the paying agent, which is U.S. Bank National Association. Holders of Notes are strongly encouraged to read the Issuer Put Right Notice and other relevant documents filed with the SEC before making a decision relating to the Put Option.
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Generation of cellular diversity is central to the development, structure and function of the central nervous system (CNS). Underlying this process is a population of cells which are multipotential and self renew (the neural stem cells) that generate stage- and site-specifics neurons and glia. Therefore, understanding the biology of neural stem cells holds the key to mechanisms that regulate neural development and stem cell based approaches to treat neurodegeneration. Given the complexity and cellular heterogeneity of the CNS, we are studying the regulation of neural stem cells in an accessible and proven model of the CNS, the mammalian (rodent) retina.
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