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Over a late-summer dinner, Robert Deutsch, the cognitive anthropologist, describes his circuitous journey from underpaid policy savant to Madison Avenue oracle. "The Max Planck Institute has a position called Visiting Foreign Fellow," he begins. "But about four and a half months before I was going to do that, Konrad Lorenz had heard me give a talk at the Herbert Marcuse Institute, which is part of the Max Planck Society, about my work. They invited me because they had heard a talk I'd given in France, analyzing the present political situation in South Africa. Now, keep in mind, up until that time I'd spent about 80 percent of my time in the field, living with primitive cultures in New Guinea, Amazonia and the Kalahari."
At this point, both sides of a 60-minute tape have been filled, and we have only gotten as far as 1978. Politely, I ask Deustch if he wouldn't mind skipping ahead to the early '90s, and the anthropologist kindly obliges. "At that point," he says, "I was slated to go back to UCLA Medical School, which has an Institute of Bio-Behavioral Science." By coincidence, he says, the Account Planning Group, the national association of ad-agency strategists, was holding its annual conference in Los Angeles that year. "They said, 'We want Bob Deutsch to give a talk on the nature of the mind,'" Deustch recalls. "I said, 'I'm not interested.' I had never thought of working with advertising agencies. I had never thought about how I could work with advertising agencies."
The ad execs, hungry for Marcuseian tidbits, somehow managed to bring Deutsch around. "I gave the talk," Deutsch recalls. "And part of the audience said, 'What the hell is this?' But the other part said, 'Wow. Come with me. Help me, please.'" Deutsch leans back in his chair and smiles broadly. "Chiat was the first," he says. "Saatchi was the second. And it just took off from there."
Deutsch was eventually snagged by DDB-Needham Worldwide, which last year hired the consultant at a salary reputed to be in the mid-six figures. "During my first meeting with a client [at DDB], I was introduced by a very high-level person," he says. "He told the client, 'This is Dr. Bob. He's our Greek chorus. He sits out there on the meta-stage. He yells at us. Applauds us. Comments on us.' Which I think is a beautiful way to say it. Because that really is what I do best."
To be sure, being a Greek chorus, not to mention sitting on the meta-stage, carries awesome responsibilities. From time to time, Deutsch says, he must admonish his clients that his job is not merely to move merchandise, but to broaden the world's available knowledge concerning human behavior. "I'll give you an example," he says. "A couple of years ago, Chiat asked me to help them think about fast food. I said, 'I'm not interested in fast food. But I am interested in the first word. Fast. So if you'll allow me to help you understand why this culture is so fast, I think I could deliver to you everything you need to know about fast food. Without ever addressing the issue of, uh, fast food.'"
The consultant then rolled up his sleeves and got down to work. "We started looking at what in human experience slows down time," he says. "And we started looking at the drive-through window as a ritual event in an anthropological sense."
A Super Value Meal No. 3 as a ritual event? "Absolutely," Deutsch avers. "There are stages in the process of the drive-through line. And these stages mirror the classic rite of passage. There's the beginning stage, where you sort of accentuate who you are. Then there's the stage where you don't know who you are, the stage of liminality. Then, finally, there's a stage of re-integration into a new identity."
Victor Turner, your Happy Meal is ready! Curiously, however, Deutsch was unable to obtain university funding for these sort of mustard-stained apergus. "I'm very thankful to the advertising industry," he says. "They've given me — and the industry continues to give me — venues to look at questions and issues that no one else was willing to really look at, let alone pay me for." Deutsch cites another example of what he is talking about. "A couple years ago, I did a project where I studied three types of experts," he says. "It was such great fun. I studied cosmologists. I studied chief firefighters. And I studied pig auctioneers from Kansas. And I found out that all of them are exactly the same. They're all more concerned with problem structuring than problem solving. They all give themselves leeway to play."
When it came to fleshing out his path-breaking theories, Clothaire Rapaille, too, encountered frustration at every turn. "First came Freud, who deals with the individual and consciousness," he tells me in his charmingly accented French. "Then came Jung, who deals with the species. I came after them. And, of course I learned a lot from them. My theory is that between the individual and the species, there is the culture. I am the missing link between Freud and Jung." Sadly, the academic establishment did not see it quite this way. "I want to understand all the cultures of the world," Rapaille says earnestly. "Who is going to pay me to do that? Not universities. They don't understand what I'm speaking for. Business people — they understand. Because they see results." Over the last five years, Rapaille has conducted over 200 Archetype Discoveries in more than 20 countries, eliciting atavistic musings on such diverse topics as "Nutrasweet," "Snack Food" and "Nuclear Energy."
Even in this age of incredible material prosperity, it's hard to fathom responsible corporate types forking over the cash to pay for this stuff. Advertising executives, casting about for an explanation, tend to credit the rise of "experiential marketing," and the cult of the brand as a kind of psychosomatic medication through which all of our complexes, vanities and blockages can be channeled. "It's become intellectually proper to acknowledge that people can have a deep relationship with brands," says Gad Romann, chairman of the Romann Group, a Manhattan ad agency. "Even the most serious academics and the most acute existentialists now acknowledge that brands become anthropomorphized. They enter our lives as relationships — in order to either enhance or dissolve other relationships." Romann, a jaunty, exuberant German in a black turtleneck and jeans, glances at his watch. "Today is what?" he asks. "August 27. All right. As of 10 to 5 on August 27 — as of today — advertising is no longer a flimsy business. That's what people have to recognize. Advertising is no longer just jokes and fun, and TV commercials. It's taken a much more serious turn."
The turn probably began back in the '50s, when the admen realized, much to their chagrin, that advances in technology and the growing standardization of ingredients were resulting in brands that were technically identical. The old approach — reciting product benefits, hammering home a "unique selling proposition" — didn't work anymore. And so, as the marketers wrung their hands, wondering how to cope with this newfound problem of "rapidly diminishing product differences," the ad agencies groped for new and deeper persuasion techniques, sexier approaches, sharper hooks.
The result, as Richard Tedlow writes in "New and Improved," was the dawn of our current era of image-based marketing — the insistence that products not only be good, but that they appeal to our hidden yearnings, "deep in the psychological recesses of the mind." By sprinkling onto their creams, deodorants and pancake mixes a variety of traits known to be dispersed among the public — glamour, efficiency, kindliness, hearty good cheer — the marketers hoped to give their brands a more deep-down appeal. Toward this end, Tedlow writes, the image mavens at Proctor & Gamble went so far as to craft a portable personality for each of their (technically identical) brands of vegetable shortening, depicting Crisco in the image of a "no-nonsense professional dietician," and Golden Fluffo as a "warm, robust, motherly character."
But somewhere along the way, the process appears to have gotten a bit out of hand. In their zeal to mesmerize an increasingly jaded public, the image builders have pumped the brands so full of personality that they've sagged under their own weight. You hardly need a semiotician to tell you that the consumer brands of today are comically overdetermined, stuffed with signifiers, choking on meaning. Take Yoo Hoo chocolate drink, a whey-based chocolate beverage handled by my agency, Mad Dogs & Englishman. Marketing documents describe its "brand character" as "fun … charming … joy … expressive … entertaining … untamed passion … 'anything is possible' … 'forms relationships' … .global." That's quite a tall order for a shelf-stable chocolate drink, even one as delicious as Yoo Hoo.
Once upon a time, the well-packaged brand was supposed to induce a kind of emotional frenzy in the consumer. Women shoppers seeking guidance in their purchases and "splurchases" would be inexorably drawn to "the package that hypnotizes them into picking it," a representative of the Package Designers Council happily told Vance Packard. In the 1990s, in a twist Packard would have relished, marketing history has veered off in a quite different direction. These days, it is the consultants, not consumers, who are in an emotional frenzy, driven to distraction over the psychodrama of the brand.
To hear Bob Deutsch talk about brands — or, as he calls it, Brand — you'd think he was referring to some sort of unimpeachable deity. "Brand is not name recognition," he tells me. "Brand is not even positive attributes. Brand is something very specific that the consumer produces. The advertiser doesn't and can't and shouldn't. Brand is this: Brand is when a person creates — the word I like to use is designs — a metonymic link between their own self-story and the story of a product, such that to be loyal to the product is a misnomer. It's loyalty to the self."
One might think the idea that the Self is constructed of Yoo Hoo and lollipops and cinnamon buns, that brands are truly constitutive in this real and deep-seated way, would be offensive to social scientists such as Deutsch, who presumably believe that individuals can discriminate between reality and illusion. But as market research comes to take on the character of therapy, such distinctions seem increasingly meaningless. If we are our own brands, as management guru Peter Drucker has theorized, then it follows that our brands are also us. Reading the case studies of the products revitalized by Semiotic Solutions is like reading a psychiatrist's log of his fretful patients, each one a querulous bundle of neuroses and dysfunctions. "Ginny Valentine's semiotic autopsy of Peparami revealed a truly schizophrenic personality," the group reports. "The brand had a unique ability to straddle both cultural meat values (power, masculinity, real food) and snack values (fun, unisexual, improper food) simultaneously." Valentine and Derrida then pull out the big salami: "The advertising has to be as radical as the product itself. Peparami is a rule-breaker, a paradigm shifter, a cultural rebel. That is where the creative strategy had to be located." Putting lunch meat on the couch doesn't come cheap: Semiotic Solutions charges $60,000 per "semiotic autopsy."
Ultimately, of course, there's something more amusing than genuinely disquieting about this new crew of persuaders and their breathless attempts to locate the holy grail of Peparami. There is a poignant disconnect between the ethereality of the theory and the sturdy, Golden Fluffo banality of the product. Consider Clothaire Rapaille's impressive-looking media kit. After a heady series of pages on Carl Jung's theory of archetypal symbolism, Freud's theory of dream significance, Arnheim's theory of Gestalt, the logic of emotion, and the power of the collective cultural unconscious, it's a bit deflating when we learn what all of this is feeding into. "Case Study," Rapaille writes: "The Archetype of Cheese."
And indeed, there are signs that Rapaille himself is ready to move on. "I would change the United Nations to the United Cultures," he says. "You see, the term 'nation' is entirely obsolete. Why do you have the Kurds fighting? They don't want to be a nation. They want to be a culture." Rapaille is growing animated. "America has no foreign policy," he says. "One of the things I would like to do is to help America to have a foreign policy."
But it's not clear that the rest of us will want to relinquish him. As we struggle with data smog, Clinton fatigue and other languors of the millennium, what a comfort to know that the brand builders are turning our world into one big unconscious-friendly theme park, a Jungian Olympus where we can quaff and loll forever amid well-known brands. It is a happy consumer universe, a world where soup delivers voluptuous oral indulgence, jeeps ferry us across wind-wracked wilderness and Tide is a font of all-forgiving mother love. And it's not so bad, life under the beneficent gaze of the new psycho-persuaders. What's the harm, after all, in surrendering to this benign flood of goods and sensations; in allowing Delta to regress us to our infancy; in allowing Shell Oil to submerge us in our own amniotic fluid? It's not as if the depth probers and the people manipulators actually threaten the public of consumers. They merely want to kill us with kindness; to cater to our subsurface needs and desires, to help us do what we already wanted to do. Right?
A half-hour into our phone conversation, Sam Cohen, the ego psychologist and object-relations theorist, tells me he has to go. "A conference call with Microsoft," he says. "I'm doing a project for them." Microsoft? I ask. "I know, it's funny," he says. "Because they have a reputation for being almost — contemptuous of the consumer." Now, however, they too are strip-searching the consumer mind — lovingly.
"They have a product that's lagging far behind the competitor," Cohen tells me. "The two brands are equal in terms of quality, but the competitor has a huge advantage in the marketplace. Now they realize that what they need to do is get inside the consumer's head, and become a more meaningful software brand. They've started to talk not just market share, but mindshare."
Maybe Vance Packard was right.
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The grinder, die grinder, and this saw from Chicago electric have been awesome. Most bad reviews are usually from people that abuse or just plain don't understand how to use tools properly.Read complete review
The grinder, die grinder, and this saw from Chicago electric have been awesome. Most bad reviews are usually from people that abuse or just plain don't understand how to use tools properly.This thing cut through a Thick 16 gauge cold rolled sheet metal like butter even though it's only rated for 18 gauge. I use tool cool on the blade just like I do on any metal saw and drill bits. I learned these practicies from working in machine shops and industrial factories. This thing can cut a tight radius smoothly. I even cut through some of my MIG welds that I layed down with some high quality L56 wire. The welds way harder than normal steel. I had to slow the cut down on the welds but it went through with no issues. I bought extra blades due to the false reviews about the saw being supplied with junk blades. Want your blades to last then keep them cool and don't force the tool to cut faster than it is capable of. Even the most expensive blades, drill bits, etc... will dull fast if not used properly and over heated. Be sure you are using the proper blade for the type of material you are cutting.Someone said they coulden't see what they were cutting. Well pull the saw back. You don't need to use this thing like a jig saw. I don't butt the gaurd up to the metal I am cutting. I use the center or tip of the blade most often as it works better this way and is more manuverable.The saw is way nicer than this picture. It has the soft rubberized maroon color shell just like their grinders. That was a bonus. I have been very pleased with the Chicago electric line of tools for my metal work.
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I really like this saw, though I was only able to use it a short time as the blade(s) it came with wore down quickly even when only cutting thin auto-body metal....Read complete review
I really like this saw, though I was only able to use it a short time as the blade(s) it came with wore down quickly even when only cutting thin auto-body metal. They also bent though I was careful not to cut at an angle, nor hit other sheet metal from behind. When it did cut, it did so very well, which was a great plus. Sure beats using a 4.5" angle grinder for detail work.I looked everywhere for replacement blades for this thing and could not find anything that would fit at Harbor Freight or the other large name brand stores. Why? Why HF? Why would you NOT sell these blades???Be careful when shopping for the blades- they may seem close enough from other retail stores, however all the one's I've purchased have been too thick or not the correct design/shape to fit. I am probably going to have to modify this tool to handle different blades.I would only recommend this product to a friend IF they could purchase new cutting blades for it with ease.
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Wish they make a smaller version of this soon! It cuts through metal without any issues. I received a 25 % dscount so this tool is worth. It does the job for less.
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I purchased this tool about 3 months ago and wanted to give it a try before rating it.After using the saw on a couple of jobs, I have nothing but a top shelf approval rating for it. If needing to cut in electrical boxes in "old, dried out paneling" this little saw is the key. No chipping or ripping or breaking away of the face of the paneling. A nice clean cut....smooooth edges. Also, used it to trim out a couple of cut in ceiling light boxes in a huge two story house we are partially rewiring that was built in 1890. HOWWW slick did that work. I purchased one package each of of all the blades available from HF. All those blades cost as much as the saw. I am very happy with this tool.
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bought one used cheap , one of the tools i have , like a mini reciprocating saw , and you can make your own blades from reciprocating blades .
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I install dryer vents and I needed a small saw that I could use to cut out old aluminum or galvanized dryer vents or to saw out a section of the vent line. This saw is perfect for this application. A regular reciprocating saw is too big and causes excessive vibration. You will have to have access to electricity but this is a minor inconvenience that is far out-weighed by the great job that this saw does for you.
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I needed a small reciprocating saw to cut a transmission tunnel out of my car. I couldn't fit a normal sized saw in there to make the cuts. I don't have an air compressor. So a pneumatic mini saw wasn't an option for me. This one knocked it out without a problem. One more thing... I don't think any other companies make a similar item. At least, I haven't found one. This is an excellent product that fills a void in the power tool market for sure.
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I have punished this thing and it keep on working. have done a vehicle restoration where a lot of cutting was done....still working
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only used one time so far worked ok.
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I purchased this electric body saw for cutting aluminum and it does it with ease. This is a great alternative for people who are looking for a portable body/hand saw that doesn't have access to an air compressor.The motor is strong enough to cut through thick gauge aluminum provided you have the patience to slowly cut through it and a set of blades suitable for the job. The unit get's *uncomfortably* hot really quick. I had to put on a pair of gloves just to continue using it. The blades that comes with your purchase are really cheap quality. The cutting teeth wears down almost instantaneously and I have yet to find any replacement blades that fit it.I'm most likely going to have to modify the unit along with voiding the warranty on it just so I can make it accept the widely use auto body replacement saws.
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I just switched out batter heads on my maple snare drum. I had an Ambassador on it which was sounding pretty good but was looking really beat up - even had a little 3 inch dish in the center of the head from being played.
Anyway, I got the new head on and tuned it up to where (I believe) it should be - never really had any problems in the past. When played softly, it sounds pretty good. But, when I lay into it, it sounds like I'm hitting the bottom of a tin can (...Doink...). I took the head off and put it back on. Followed all the right procedures and ...Doink...!!
I thought it may be my rezo. So, I played with that a little - from what I could tell, this head really didn't need any adjusting.
Am I doing something wrong or do you think I just have a bad head?
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too thin, get a G2 or something similar, maybe a G12 or G14
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It's possible you got a bad head. It may also not be tight enough or stretched enough. I used to always tune to the same tension, but you have to learn to tune the head to the drum, not just what you know/think to be right.
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Its not the head its the tuning, simple as that.
A G1 is a little drier than an Amb but basically the same head.
Work with your reso/batter relationship and the syncing up between them.
As a start:
reso = medium tight to tight, batter = medium, work from there.
Most (many) snare issues can be dealt with via the reso.
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Why couldn't this be my 8" tom. When that gets messed up I'm not that worried about it.
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It is quite possible that you received a bad head from Evans, I've had a few which I returned to the Five Star shop where I bought them. Mine were G2 coated and clear heads and from the feedback from the guys at the shop, mine were not the only returns.
I would take the G1 off the drum and re-seat and tune it. If you don't have better results, return it for something different, maybe a Remo Ambassador, lol.
I don't know if it matches your type of music, but on most of my snare drums I use an Evans Power Center Reverse Dot batter head.
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The G1 sounds good on my Acrolite but - not a love thing yet. The coating is holding up better than the Ambassador that was last on there (I play a bit of brushes on it) but it's not getting the sound I want. I'm going to return to a single ply Aquarian choice (Either Satin TC or Studio-X) for the next head. In the meantime, it's not bad and is playable for the majority of the situations I'm using it for.
G1's have been the more challenging head for me but I can still get it to sound good.
The OP mentions being scared to mess with his reso. Might I suggest going one step further and replacing the reso and start experimenting? We as drummers need to go through this process many times so we can get this skill under our hands and in our ears. Lots of time it's trial and error. It seems like a small investment to be able to get head changes consistent through our playing career.
BTW - if that Amb had a 'dimple' in the middle, it was wasted way past when it should have been changed. I've never played a drum with a head in that condition that I felt could be used professionally for my work and I'm not the hottest pro on the block. Also I'm assuming that the resonant head is pretty old and worn out as well.
I say put some time into what you have in hand. Then replace the reso if it's still not working. Tune the drum all the way to finger tension and then carefully bring both up in pitch together until it starts to sound good. Then you can start to experiment with batter vs resonant tensions and tuning range 'sweet spots'. At the very least, change the snare side resonant at the same time you change the batter next time.
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Try tuning a new reso about a fourth higher than the batter.
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Hell, who knows, maybe I just got used to the sound degrading over time and thought it sounded good before. Maybe now it's just right.
I think I will spend some time playing around with it.
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Ghana gold mining contract awarded
Australian diversified mining services company Ausdrill's wholly-owned subsidiary African Mining Services (AMS) has been awarded a contract to provide openpit mining services to gold explorer Perseus Mining's Edikan gold mine's (EGM's) Eastern Pits operation, in Ghana, Ausdrill announced late... →
Downhole geophysics helps mines avoid costly mistakes
By: Bruce Montiea The profit margins of opencast mining have decreased, necessitating cost reductions while effcient production is maintained, says wireline-logging company Geoline Logging Services. Geoline manager Charles Gould states that most opencast mines tend to operate on a "best guess" basis in terms of... →
Elandsfontein phosphate project implementation awarded
South Africa-based engineering and project delivery specialist DRA has been awarded the implementation phase of the openpit Elandsfontein phosphate project, on the West Coast of South Africa, by exploration company Elandsfontein Exploration and Mining. The engineering, procurement and... →
Mines increasingly depend on technology
By: Bruce Montiea As mining companies become increasingly dependent on technology to drive, manage and deliver large-scale opencast projects, they are starting to consider cloud-based systems for solutions, says corporate collaborative cloud solution provider Asite CEO Tony Ryan. He says effective project... →
Opencast mines benefit from electronic detonation technology
The popularity of electronic initiation in blasting is bound to grow as more opencast mines and quarries benefit from the reliability and accuracy of these systems and the broader impact of high-quality blasts to their operational bottom-line, says specialised mining chemical products and... →
PDS technology installed at surface mine
Electronic mine safety equipment company Booyco Electronics is installing its pedestrian detection system (PDS) technology at a surface mining operation. "We have completed the [installation on the] mining operation side and are currently busy with the mineral processing side, wherein lie more... →
PFS for Eritrea openpit potash project completed
Exploration company South Boulder Mines has completed the prefeasibility study (PFS) for its Colluli potash project, in Eritrea. The project, which will be characterised by openpit mining using conventional truck and shovel methods without blasting, is a 50:50 joint venture between South Boulder... →
Quality control leads to successful blasting results
By: Bruce Montiea Quality control is the most important factor in conducting blasting at an opencast mine, says environmental, opencast and civil drilling and blasting company DynaD director Chris Bester. He states that using the correct charge-up instructions and procedures, which include the quantity of... →
Company acquires new openpit mine software
Mining software and services provider Maptek has acquired mine planning consultancy Orelogy's Evorelution strategic openpit mine scheduling set of software which, as of this month, will be developed and marketed as the Vulcan Open Pit Scheduler. →
Fully redundant connectivity rolled out for opencast miner
Information and communication technology (ICT) major Jasco Group has provided opencast mining company MCC Contracts' sites with fully redundant connectivity using a combination of microwave and very small aperture terminal (VSAT) satellite connectivity. →
L&J Gemmell Plant Services
Established by Les, Johnny and Ivy Gemmell in 1982, plant equipment solutions provider L & J Gemmell Plant Services spent its first 20 years renting trucks, graders, rollers, tankers and tractors, with operators on a subcontract basis, to road construction and property development contractors.... →
Miners need to collaborate with conservation groups
By: Dylan Slater Building solid relationships between mining companies and conservation groups might be the key to an overall positive perception of mining operations – especially opencast operations that are prone to easily identifiable forms of pollution, such as dust and noise, says business law firm Fasken... →
Simulator training reduces fuel consumption, tyre wear and risk
By: Dylan Slater Australia-based equipment training simulator company Immersive Technologies' vehicle simulator training is assisting mine-vehicle operators, especially those working at opencast mining operations, in ensuring that they are shifting gears properly, using their vehicles' full braking capability and... →
Stakeholder buy-in key for successful openpit planning
When it comes to openpit mine planning, it is essential to establish a thorough understanding of the practical mining cycle and how mine-planning software can help, says mine planning and engineering consultancy Ukwazi Group. →
Aveng Moolmans
A subsidiary of construction and engineering giant Aveng Group, Aveng Moolmans is an opencast contract mining company that offers a variety of services to clients across Africa's surface mining industry. From short-term waste mining and bulk earthmoving to a complete and long-term mining... →
Careful water management is required at openpit mines, says consultancy
By: Carina Borralho Independent consulting engineers and scientists, SRK Consulting SA has completed numerous surface water studies for feasibility studies for openpit in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC's) and tropical areas to the North of the DRC. One of the main issues around openpit mining in these... →
Century of opencast mining leaves poor legacy
By: Carina Borralho A historic legacy of gold mining on Gauteng's West Rand has impacted negatively on the area's landscape and environment, says South Africa-focused mine tailings extractor Mintails, which has been facilitating mine closures at its goldfields on the West Rand since June 2013. The West Rand mining... →
Mine planning essential for opencast environment
A project team with mine planning as its core business is best positioned to deliver appropriate, integrated, optimum and executable mine designs, says mining consultancy Ukwazi. Ukwazi is the largest-capacity mining engineering-focused consulting services provider in Africa and has successfully... →
Mitigating the environmental effects of opencast mining
By: Carina Borralho Opencast mining operations in South Africa remain one of the industry's main contributors to short- and long-term environmental damage, as they have a direct and cumulative impact on the air, water, soil and visual quality of the environment surrounding opencast mines, says Johannesburg-based... →
Project awarded for opencast op
Processing specialist B&E International's appointment as the build-own-operate (BOO) contractor for the crushing, agglomeration and stacking plant based at the 17 000 t/y Tschudi copper project, in northern Namibia, represents a milestone in the company's strategic plan to build on its reputation... →
SA investment in DRC opencast operations
By: Carina Borralho The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is potentially one of the richest mining countries in Africa, based on its vast copper, cobalt and diamond resources, says mining equipment manufacturer VR Steel, which extended its services to the country last year. VR Steel MD John van Reenen tells Mining... →
Australian tungsten project to restart within the year
By: Esmarie Swanepoel Junior tungsten producer Carbine Tungsten is hoping to restart the historic opencast operations at its Mount Carbine project, in Queensland, within the next 18 months. MD Jim Morgan told Mining Weekly that the permitting process for the restart of the opencast mine, which was estimated to host a... →
Equipment manufacturer supplies products, expands African footprint
By: Chantelle Kotze Manufacturer of compact equipment and light equipment Wacker Neuson reports that it has supplied skid steer loaders for general pit maintenance tasks, mini excavators with attachments for various applications, dirty-water dewatering pumps and light towers for illumination to various opencast coal... →
Financing partner secured for Canadian tungsten project
Tungsten/molybdenum project developer Northcliff Resources reports that it has secured a partial financing partner for its Sisson opencast project, in New Brunswick, Canada. →
Industrial plant rental solution effectively used in mining industry
The success of companies undertaking and executing large-scale projects in the mining sector, such as opencast mining activities, is heavily dependent on the capacity and reliability of its suppliers, says compressor hire company Rand-Air. →
Largest wheel loader launched in Southern Africa
Construction and crane equipment manufacturer XCMG Africa, which forms part of the Chinese XCMG Group, reports that it has launched its largest yet XCMG wheel loader, currently available in Southern Africa. "The new LW900K wheel earth loader, which was introduced to the local market at bauma... →
Low-maintenance compressors introduced to Africa
Pretoria-based specialised engineering solutions company Rand Technical Services (RTS) and its Norwegian principal Hystorsys are in the final stages of the development of its non-reciprocating and low-maintenance compressors, reports RTS chairperson Ian Fraser. →
Mining solutions company aims to launch software
By: David D' Oliveira Mining solutions company CAE Mining will start regional releases of its CAE Summit Web- and cloud-based strategic openpit mine planning software solution later this year, says CAE Mining technical director Andy Lapworth. CAE Summit assists mining companies in determining the best mining strategy... →
New screen expanding into the quarrying industry
By: Jonathan Rodin Manufacturers of screening and recycling attachments built for skid steers, excavators, wheel loaders, backhoes and telehandlers, Flip Screen reports that it is in talks with various companies to expand into the South African quarrying industry. →
Opencast mining challenging, but lucrative
By: Megan van Wyngaardt Although faced with, and cognisant of, the challenges of opencast mining, almost all African governments are mindful of the investment opencast mining could generate, which, in turn, will increase these countries' gross domestic product (GDP). For this reason, opencast mining is not likely to be... →
Software solution targets opencast and underground mines
By: Jonathan Rodin Australian software, hardware and services for the mining industry provider Maptek reports that its laser scanner and processing software is being used successfully across opencast and underground mines in Southern Africa. →
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Bumi Resources on Friday had its bond ratings downgraded by Moody's Investors Service, citing the coal miner's ability to reduce debt as coal prices remain weak.
Shares of Bumi Resources fell even as a shareholder vote in London paved the way for the Bakrie Group to swap its stake in Bumi Resources from Bumi Plc .
Moody's said in a statement on Friday that it downgraded the corporate family and senior secured bond ratings of Bumi Resources one notch to B2 from B1. The senior secured bonds are issued by Bumi Capital and Bumi Investment, wholly owned subsidiaries of Bumi Resources. The outlook is stable.
"The weakness in coal prices will continue to pressure the company's operating margins and limit its ability to generate sufficient free cash flow to lower its leverage in a timely manner," Simon Wong, a Moody's vice president and senior analyst, said in a statement.
The company's average selling price for coal will come under further pressure in 2013, as it will renegotiate its coal contracts based on the current lower prices, the rating agency said. Moody's expects the price of Newcastle thermal coal to average around $90 to $95 per metric ton in 2013. It currently stands at $94 a ton.
Wong said the downgrade reflected its assessment that the likelihood of Bumi Resources cutting the ratio of its adjusted debt-to-earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to less than 4.5 times in the next 12 to 18 months as low. Moody's also expects the company's adjusted debt-to-Ebitda ratio to remain at between five and six times until 2014.
The potential recovery of the amounts due from third parties, such as Recapital Asset Management and Bukit Mutiara, as well as a possible sale of its stakes in Fajar Bumi Sakti — one of its coal mining assets — will not be adequate to bring down its leverage to a level that is appropriate for the B1 rating, Moody's said.
Bumi Resources on Friday dropped 1.1 percent to Rp 910, extending a two-day, 8.1 percent decline. By comparison, the main stock index gained 0.4 percent.
Moody's said that while the uncertainties related to the ongoing shareholder disputes at Bumi Plc have eased with the now likely separation of Bumi Resources from Bumi Plc, corporate governance at Bumi Resources remained an issue.
Moody's also says it is concerned about the company's high level of debt and the liquidity risk at the holding company level, given the structural separation from the underlying coal assets that are largely responsible for the group's cash flow.
Among other Bakrie-related shares, Berau Coal Energy, a unit of Bumi Resources, gained 12 percent to Rp 335. As part of the deal, Bumi Plc will get an 85 percent stake in Berau Coal. Borneo Lumbung Energy & Metal, a coal company controlled by Samin Tan — who owns half of the Bakrie Group's stake in Bumi Plc — gained 1.9 percent to Rp 530, extending Thursday's 3.6 percent gain. Bakrie & Brothers was unchanged at Rp 50 per share.


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CINCINNATI - The Dads & Daughters ticket package is back for the 2012-13 women's basketball season after last year's successful package. Over 100 dads and daughters enjoyed their experience last year prompting Xavier marketing to continue with the program.
This ticket program is targeted for dads with daughters in eighth grade and below. The unique package includes tickets to four games during the 2012-13 season regular season, t-shirts, and four different events at each of the games all for ONLY $50. Games in the package feature non-conference match ups against Duke and Wright State as well as Atlantic 10 opponents Duquesne and Rhode Island. Packages also include pre-game parties with "chalk talks" from Xavier assistant coaches, meet-and-greets with the team and halftime contests between dads and daughters.
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"This is a dish for the spinach lover. Great the next day also. I look forward to making it every Spring when spinach is in season."
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fresh spinach - rinsed, dried and torn into bite size pieces
1 (24 ounce) carton
ricotta cheese
1/2 cup
grated Parmesan cheese
eggs, beaten
1/4 cup
chopped red bell pepper
Very easy to make and I find it delicious, although I did change the recipe a little. I sauted diced ham and onion with some garlic, then added it into the mixture. I didn't have enough spinach or ricotta cheese, so I added two more eggs. Then I topped off the pie with green onion and some cheddar cheese. It tasted great. Will definitely use this recipe again.
I did not have good results using this recipe. Very bland even after the addition of garlic and onion. Sorry.
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I decided to try out this recipe when I needed to use up a large amount of fresh spinach. It was a good choice! Both my husband and I really enjoyed it.
Here are the changes I made: I added 1 tablespoon of onion powder and some minced garlic. I shredded one cup of sharp cheddar cheese and used this as a topping. Broiling the pie for the last five minutes ensured that I had good browning of the cheese. I think the sharp cheddar cheese and the onion powder made all the difference!
I've never made quiche before and this was great to cut my teeth on. The only thing I regret is following other recommendations to add garlic. For me, the peppers and onions made a sweet and delicious addition. The garlic was a completely dissonent note
This was delicious, and it could not have been easier! I did use frozen spinach (squeezed) and added some chopped green onions (just trying to get rid of them, but otherwise followed the recipe exactly. Some people mentioned that it was bland, maybe I was just generous with the spinach, but I did not find it to be so, and that is usually my first complaint. I also almost always add garlic, but I resisted this once, and I'm so glad I did! mmmm spinach!
I tried this recipe once and loved it so much I layered it in between noodles and tomato sauce for a really good spinach lasagna. It was a great vegetarian alternative to turkey, and my Thanksgiving guests loved it!
I used feta and garlic cream cheese instead of ricota. It was delicous. Will cook again.
Added at least 1tsp paprika, 1/2 jalapeno, full cup (not just 1/2 cup) red pepper, and about 1/4 cup onion. Excellent flavor, but took about 2x the time to cook (about 1.5 hrs) @ 350 degrees.
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Saturday, August 16, 2014
Lifeguards from Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission (CCPRC) beach parks spent two days in North Myrtle Beach showcasing their skills while competing in the South Atlantic Lifeguard Association (SALA) Championships held on July 9 and 10. The team, composed of 15 ocean rescue lifeguards, took home fourth overall in the "A" division, which is comprised of lifeguard teams from the larger beach areas in the South Atlantic region.
Several Charleston County team members won individual awards as well. Ryan Bing was named region champ in the Open Men's Division 2-kilometer run. Stephen Fernandez was the age group runner-up in the surf race, board race, run-swim-run and international ironman. Lauren Weeks won third place in both the Open Women's Division board race and international ironwoman. Weeks also placed within the top 10 in the 2-kilometer run and the surf ski race. Alex Parler took home third place in the Open Men's Division run-swim-run event.
Several guards placed within the top 10 of various individual events, earning the entire Charleston County team points for each winner that placed. Those winners included Lauren Weeks, Sarah Thibaudeau, Caroline Hairfield, Jessica Baynes, Kaitlyn Deitsch, Ryan Bing, Alex Parler, Kurtyss Kasten, Chase Heffron, Stephen Fernandez and Alex Wood.
Seven lifeguards from CCPRC will travel to Virginia Beach from Aug. 7-9 to compete in the USLA National Lifeguard Championship against lifeguard teams from all across the country. This will be the first time CCPRC has competed in this national event in over six years.
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If this week's edition of the Yellow Springs News seems, well, a little thick in the middle, it's because enclosed within are whopping 72 pages of anything and everything about Yellow Springs.
Yellow Springs Healers embrace holistic approach
ust as 1960s counterculture icon Timothy Leary famously told fellow hippies to "tune in, turn on, drop out," local holistic health practitioners Douglas Klappich and Deborah McGee have some advice today for health and healing: "Tune in, tone up, bliss out."
Yellow Springs healers embrace holistic approach
Just as 1960s counterculture icon Timothy Leary famously told fellow hippies to "tune in, turn on, drop out," a couple of self-described "New Age flower children" local holistic health practitioners have some advice today for health and healing.
New Reiki Gong business — A life path that veered to healing
Philip Love found in meditation and Eastern spirituality the enlightenment he once sought in a Messiah and a materialistic lifestyle and created his own unique practice that blends Tibetan Reiki healing with the Chinese practice of Qigong.
Local psychologist joins west, east in healing
Few conventional medicine providers give much credence to traditional medicine, whose practitioners don't often seek mainstream credentials. Dr. Rose Mary Shaw bridges both worlds.
Wellness about the daily mind
Local resident Carmen Milano believes that the village has many of the elements associated with good health and long life spans. And beginning this month, Wellness Month in Yellow Springs, she wants to make the village a place where people truly live better and longer.
Library hosts healing workshops
A free workshop series on Filipino healing traditions presented by local holistic health practitioner Virgil Mayor Apostol begins with a lecture at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at the Yellow Springs Public Library.
College global seminar projects go local— Students tackle town/gown health
A women's support group, bicycle co-op and senior auditing program were a few of the ideas Antioch College students came up with to tackle campus and community health problems during last semester's global seminar.
To new healer, the eyes have it
Some see eyes as windows to the soul, while others, like local iridologist Eric Rodriguez, also see the iris as a window into the body, revealing a person's health history, unhealthy habits and future illnesses.
Young minds, bodies take to yoga in the schools
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. --- Georgia's distance medley relay team made the best out of its trip to Notre Dame as broke into the nation's top 10 with its finish.
The Lady Bulldog foursome of Stella Christoforou, Tynia Gaither, Megan Malasarte and Carly Hamilton combined to set a school record with a time of 11:03.27 for fifth place at the Alex Wilson Invitational on Friday night. This time gave them one of the country's top 10 times. The top 16 nationwide earn a trip to next weekend's NCAA Championships in Fayetteville, Ark.
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By Lindsay Toler
In an Oct. 24 commentary, Bearden wrote about how graciously Graham treated each one of her questions, how "his eyes shone as he spoke." His marriage, she insisted, was "a match made in heaven." She asked him to sign his autobiography for her, saying later, "He won't remember our time together. But I will never forget it." Bearden wrote thousands of words about Graham before and during the Tampa Crusade, including a chronology of his life that appeared in a special 16-page section of the Tribune, "Billy Graham's Lifelong Crusade." "All he did," she ended one feature, "was let God use him."
Coverage of Billy Graham expands like cotton candy. Here in St. Louis, 30 radio and TV spots aired from Sept. 15-29, packed with such hard news as the choir-rehearsal schedule; Crusade staff's prediction of a crowd; Graham's grandson's being upset about violence. The topic is self- justifying, the audience eager, the content overwhelmingly positive. After all, Billy Graham is almost 80, with Parkinson's disease, so each Crusade could be his last. "Our publisher mandated overwhelming coverage," recalls a non-Christian journalist from one of the recent Crusade cities. "But you do essentially have someone I mean, his view is that, if you do not accept Jesus Christ, you are condemned to eternal damnation. Are we supposed to just blithely ignore that?" Sighing, she answers her own question: "We don't challenge beliefs anymore. We are not allowed."
His Catch-22
Billy Graham doesn't challenge beliefs either, not anymore. Long gone is the preacher who vilified communists, who urged a buildup of armaments, who said in a radio broadcast of 1953, "I thank God for men who, in the face of public denouncement and ridicule, go loyally on in their work of exposing the pinks, the lavenders and the reds who have sought refuge beneath the wings of the American eagle." Today, Graham says things like, "The church needs to be very wary about becoming deeply involved in political and social issues.... There are many very, very difficult and complex issues in this world, and we do not necessarily know the answer to them just because we are preachers or Christians."
This is his Catch-22: He is criticized for not taking a strong moral stand on virtually any complex secular issue yet if he did take such stands, he would not be Billy Graham. More to the point, he would cease to enjoy the approval ratings that make people yearn for him to take a stand.
So he dances. Takes the Fifth. Plays it safe. And ends up conveying his inadvertent blessing on wars, bigots, greedy politicians and fools. In 1963, for example, Graham refused to join Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, saying the civil-rights movement was going "too far, too fast." Four years later, when King cried out against the Vietnam War in his famous sermon at New York's Riverside Church, Graham labeled the criticism "an affront to the thousands of loyal Negro troops who are in Vietnam." King said things like, "If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read, Vietnam." Graham, returning from a 1966 trip to Vietnam at the invitation of Gen. William Westmoreland, assured Americans that the troops were "extremely religious" and later spoke of "the victory they are almost certainly winning there." To this day, analysts wonder how far the tide of public opinion would have been diverted had Graham spoken out the way King did. Instead, in 1970, he mounted a rah-rah, Christians-proud-of-their-government Fourth of July celebration in Washington, D.C.
Two months earlier, when President Richard Nixon joined Graham on his Crusade stage at the University of Tennessee, about 300 students screamed protests against the bombing of Cambodia. Many were arrested, a few actually convicted of disrupting a religious service. (One man reportedly blurted, during the melee, "Let's get out of here before these Christians kill us!")
Graham never could keep religion and politics separate. Maybe you can't. Maybe he's had too much fun golfing with presidents; chatting, towel-draped, in a locker room with Eisenhower. Or maybe he can't forget his deep yearning for "a theocracy, with Christ on the throne and the nations of the world confessing him." Graham eventually blamed all the anti-war demonstrations on "a Satanic spiritual power of evil ... stirring up all the hatred and dissent." He also tried to minimize the war's toll, saying: "I deplore the suffering and the killing ... but we also have to realize that there are hundreds of thousands of deaths attributed to smoking."
Did he ever reevaluate? Well, in Graham's 1997 autobiography, the chapter on Nixon is titled "My Quaker Friend" and describes "a modest and moral man with spiritual sensitivity." (The admiration was mutual: When Nixon worried about IRS audits of his supporters, he mentioned Billy Graham and John Wayne by name.) The Watergate tapes came as a rude shock to Graham but not because of all the spying, hatred, stealing, lying and vicious anti-Semitism. "The thing that surprised and shook me the most was the vulgar language he used," Graham wrote. "Inwardly, I felt torn apart."
Later in the autobiography, he calls Ronald Reagan "one of the most winsome men I have ever known"; Ross Perot "one of the smartest men I had ever met"; and Paul Harvey his "best friend in the American media." Last year, he said of Clinton's sexual exploits, "He has such a tremendous personality that I think the ladies just go wild over him." Graham may condemn non-Christians for the unforgivable sin of rejecting Jesus, but he sure does look on the bright side for Christian celebrities.
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He's been called "The Man of Tomorrow." Ever since his debut in 1938, the core of his appeal has been, even more than the incredible powers that earned him the better-known sobriquet "The Man of Steel," his ability to embody human horizons, to fire the imagination, to speak to the hopes and fantasies of the readers of his published adventures in a powerful and direct way. His raison d'etre is to solve problems, overcome obstacles, vanquish enemies, and generally do anything that we cannot, but that we wish we could--the unspoken, hopeful subtext being that everything he can presently accomplish, the rest of us might also, in some distant, shining tomorrow.
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(ABC 6 NEWS) -- On this Ash Wednesday, which begins the season of lent for many Christians, not everyone has the time to head to church to get the traditional ashes on their forehead. So this year, several churches took their ashes to the streets of downtown Rochester.
On a regular weekday morning, the streets of downtown Rochester see plenty of traffic.
"I take the bus every morning to work," said Rochester resident Theresa Jacobson.
Theresa Jacobson makes the same trip day after day, but on Ash Wednesday, she made an out of the ordinary pit stop.
"It takes about 20 seconds to get a blessing and it feels real good," said Jacobson.
Reverend Doug Sparks of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Rochester says this is the first time any church in Minnesota has ever offered Ashes To Go.
"This is really an opportunity to stop for a moment have a word of prayer, open oneself up to the possibility of beginning again," said Sparks.
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"This is recognizing that in the midst of business, in the midst of all the other things that go on in our life, we're moving beyond the walls of a building and the doors of a building to encounter people right here on the street corner," said Sparks.
"If I wouldn't of stepped off the bus and saw those people giving ashes, I wouldn't have gotten ashes today," said Rochester resident Mike Foley.
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Ashes To Go is part of a new nationwide movement. Many Christians across the country received the traditional ashes anywhere in public places like train stations, coffee houses and restaurants.