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|The objective is to develop a theoretical scheme in relating caste structure to agricultural development in Indian villages by using the concept of caste dominance originally proposed & used by Srinivas in interpreting the process of Sanskritization in Ru India. The basic argument is that it is the dominance of an agricultural caste which is positively related to agriculture in Indian villages. An agricultural caste is defined as a caste to the members of which agriculture is a caste &/or traditional occupation. It is argued that cultivators belonging to an agricultural caste who are taught the skills of their own caste &/or traditional occupation, & to whom cultivation is a primary occupation, would attach more importance to agriculture in terms of skill in-put, interest & time spent in it than the cultivators belonging to non-agricultural castes. Not only economic dominance in terms of ownership of sizeable amount of locally arable land, but also numerical dominance of an agricultural caste positively contribute to agriculture because modern farming ideas flow smoothly & extensively among cultivators who belong to the same caste. The socio-ritual position of the agricultural castes in local caste hierarchy is not high enough for its members to consider direct manual involvement in agriculture to be demeaning to their status & not low enough to lack capital & skill to invest in agriculture. Thus the concept of dominant caste, not as a mediator of models of Sanskritization, but as a structural unit of Indian villages could be effectively used in interpreting the relationship between caste & agriculture. All 3 attributes of dominant caste-numerical, hierarchical & economic-have relevance for this problem. Numerical dominance of an agricultural caste contributes to the homogeneity of the village population to the extent that it helps dissemination of innovative ideas. Lack of hierarchial dominance & subservience on the part of the agricultural castes in local caste hierarchy enables its members to ininvest manual labor & managerial skill in agriculture respectively. Finally, the economic dominance in terms of ownership of large-sized farms helps the members of an agricultural caste to engage intensively, in terms of time & interest, in productive agricultural activity.
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Post subject: Lisa Marie Rice -- where?
Neither of my local town libraries have anything by her. Nor does my local Borders. Is her stuff sold in paper form in any nationwide chain, or do I have to wait for someone to get bored with it and give it to my local used bookstore?
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All my LMR are in e-versions, though I know she does have books in print. She is a very "hot" author, and I mean by the sex scenes not by popularity, so maybe your libraries don't carry erotica/romantica?
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All of her books are available in paperback - check out amazon as most are available second hand. They are more expensive than some but then for it would seem that those books categorised as erotic seem to cost more. Anyone have any ideas why? I can only think it's because the audience is not as big as for, say, Harlequin/M&B.
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Elaine is correct, you can find all Rice's previous books in paperback, especially if you check out Amazon or Barnes & Noble on-line. (I often order used copies of older books through their on-line service.)
In the meantime, the last 2 Rice books--Dangerous Lover and Dangerous Secrets --are published in trade format by Avon Red, the, "erotic" imprint of HarperCollins. My copies were readily available at B & N, but often they put them out on the new paperback table, rather than shelving them in the romance section.
Hope you can get to read her books--I am a great fan!
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And I found her last two in the Erotic section of Chapters - not in the romance department.
And I'm a fan of hers too!
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I'm still scratching my head over why LMR's books are considered erotic romance. There's nothing there that you wouldn't find in "regular" romance (in fact, what they actually
is even more 100% vanilla than in many regular romance novels). Also, in her Avon Red books, at least, there isn't an unusually high sex-to-plot ratio.
I do find her books hotter than most, but just because the emotions involved are so intense, the same way Linda Howard's books used to be hot, for instance. I'm not really complaining... I mean, this is what I would love all erotic romance to be like (so I could just go to the bookstore and sweep the entire shef into my shopping basket, LOL!).
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You can get most of Rice's books at Ellora's Cave electronically. Two of the best, in my and many other people's opinion, are "Midnight Man" and "Midnight Angel," a beauty and the beast tale. Although characters from "Midnight Man" occur in "Angel," it's minor and the book can be read alone. IMO, these are fabulous reads, even better than Rice's last two novels, available in paperback only. Ellora's Cave also gives you excerpts which will tell you whether you will like the books or not--they are accurate predictors.
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I don't do electronic books. I want paper copies.
And I don't trust Ellora's Cave. Their editing is extraordinarily bad. If I can't flip through a book before buying it, I won't.
Only Barnes and Noble, hm? Seems strange to me...Borders carries all sorts of erotica from EC as well, I don't see why they don't carry Rice, too.
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Borders does carry Rice, they just sell out fast. Around here, they have more copies of various Ellora Cave books that B&N which has more individual copies of much fewer titles.
I'm totally with you about preferring paper to electronic; I don't have an device, so I run them off on paper which is not as good as a paperback, I grant you. I don't remember seeing any glaring (or subtle) errors in Rice's e-books, but it's always possible that I overlooked some.
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Borders does carry Rice, they just sell out fast.
Ahh, now that makes some sense. I saw one copy of one of her books at my local Borders today. It was $14. I decided that an Angela Knight I'd been looking for was going to be my purchase for $6 less!
I don't know about LMR's books in particular, but I've seen spelling and grammar errors in the EC previews on line that make me leary of buying before looking for myself. Also, sometimes their previews give a false image of the book. I remember looking at a preview of an Elizabeth Lapthorne that looked like a triad (m/m/f) story that in paperback I found was actually ending up m/f instead.
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The first test is required once a vehicle is three years old. There are different rules if you use it as a taxi. When your vehicle is tested, the MOT looks at some important items to see if it meets the legal requirements. You should be aware that the MOT certificate is not a guarantee of the general mechanical condition of a vehicle.
When your vehicle needs testing
If a vehicle is registered with no prior use on the road, the MOT will be required three years after the date of registration. For example, a vehicle registered from new on 1 April 2004 will require its MOT no later than 1 April 2007.
If a vehicle is used prior to registration, as would be the case with an import, the MOT will be required three years from the end of the year of manufacture. For example a vehicle manufactured at any time in 2004 will require an MOT no later than 31 December 2007. There is no grace period given after these dates.
If the vehicle is tested within the calendar month prior to when the MOT is due, the test certificate will run from the date of the test to one year after the expiry date of the current certificate. For example, if the current certificate was due to expire on 1 April 2007, and the vehicle was presented on or after 2 March 2007, the certificate would run from the test date until 1 April 2008.
The same rule would also apply when the vehicle is taken in within a calendar month of its first MOT. In this case, the vehicle owner would need to present their registration document.
If the vehicle is tested earlier than one month before its due date, the MOT will only run for twelve months.


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"Carbon footprint," "carbon neutral" and "carbon offset" have become part of our national conversation in recent years. The goal is to be carbon neutral by reducing our carbon footprint, often through purchasing carbon offsets.
Reducing our carbon footprint is neither new nor controversial, as the underlying philosophy of reducing carbon emissions is decades old.
What is new and potentially of ethical concern is the way offsets are being marketed, lending itself to "greenwashing" (another new term) where we purge our guilt but do not actually change our behavior.
Let's say you want to ski in Switzerland this spring break. You can pay Continental Airlines between $40 and $100 for various offset programs that presumably negate the 3.165 metric tons of CO2 your flights will spew into the atmosphere.
Just flying round-trip to Houston produces 0.2519 metric tons of CO2 for which you can pay Continental $3.02 for a reforestation project, $7.92 for an alternative energy project, $8.19 for a different alternative energy project, or $5.54 for a combination of various offset projects.
These offset projects are good, but are also analogous to Johan Tetzel's 1516 efforts to raise funds to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica.
You probably don't remember Tetzel, but you do remember the fellow who opposed selling such indulgences, as Martin Luther's 95 theses were in response to Tetzel's marketing scheme.
Pope Leo X's plan to rebuild the basilica was good, but funding the project through the sale of indulgences wasn't, as it allowed people to "sin" knowing they could pay money to a good cause and it would offset the sin.
And that seems to be what carbon offsets are all about. The "sin" is spewing excessive carbon so I can ski in Switzerland. The indulgence is paying to plant trees in Malaysia.
Purchasing carbon offsets to indulge in pleasure may lead to a bigger problem: catharsis.
Catharsis is the feeling of purification and/or cleansing without actually having corrected the problem. If you believe in global warming and the danger of an excessively large carbon footprint on God's creation, you want people to make real changes in how they live.
Instead, these indulgences - excuse me, "offsets" - allow people to continue to emit excessive carbon while simultaneously removing any motivation, guilt or responsibility for reducing their carbon footprint.
It is a classic American mindset: do whatever you want, and then pay someone else to fix the consequences. You can go globe-trotting or drive your huge SUV and still call yourself "green." This is "greenwashing."
Like all real problems, real solutions require real changes, in this case lifestyle changes, not spending a few bucks to build a windmill in Africa or plant a tree in Malaysia.
Real progress requires real change.
James Hallmark is dean of the graduate school and research at West Texas A & M University.
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MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Harry Keith Morris Sr., 85, died Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, in Mount Vernon, Wash.
Memorial services were held Friday in Hawthorne Funeral Home. Arrangements are by Hawthorn Funeral Home in Mount Vernon.
Harry was born Sept. 8, 1926, in Gainesville, Texas, to Dorris Albert Morris Sr. and Olga Aleene Wetz Morris. Harry grew up in Canadian, Texas, and graduated from Canadian High School in 1943. He attended West Texas State, Oklahoma A&M and Oregon State colleges.
Harry served in the Army and spent a year in Germany with U.S. occupation forces.
He married Dannie Welch on June 10, 1948, in Canadian. To this union were born three children, Harry Keith Jr., Phyllis Elaine and Rebecca Eloise.
Harry graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, before pastoring at Lesley Baptist Church, Notrees Baptist Church and First Baptist Church Bronte. He later served as area missionary for the Brady, Coleman and Runnels counties Baptist associations and spent 13½ years as director of missions for Mount Baker Baptist Association in Washington while living in Mount Vernon.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Aaron; a sister, Patricia McDaniel; and a daughter, Rebecca Gragg.
Survivors include his wife, Dannie of Mount Vernon; a son, Harry Keith Jr.; a daughter, Phyllis Middleton; six grandchildren, Jared, Colton and Parker Gragg and Genesis, Michael and Hannah Morris; a great-granddaughter, Emma Claire Gragg; a sister, Marguerite Huyck of Amarillo; a brother, Dorris Albert Morris Jr. of San Antonio; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorial gifts may be sent to Southern Baptist Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, The Gideons International or Trinity Baptist Church in Mount Vernon.
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Every single time I go on Pinterest I end up in a weird terrarium rabbit hole. I love them. They look like miniature fairy gardens and as a little girl who was raised in a pre-internet era, I spent many hours building tiny mystical lands in shoe boxes with off cuts from my mother's plants and Glad Bag ponds. After wasting another 2 hours looking at pictures of terrariums, I figured it was time to make my own. I googled a few how tos and then promptly lost interest when they said I needed charcoal and sphagnum moss. The purchasing of items not found at my local supermarket is enough to put me off any project but then this weekend Mr Smaggle went all gardener on me and decided he wanted to plant a climber. Nurserys make me bored so instead of annoying Mr Smaggle while he was chatting about potting mix, I decided to buy some terrarium bits and pieces and do some procrasti-gardening when we got home.
How To Make A Terrarium
1. Find a pot (or a jar or a bottle) with no drainage holes.
Terrariums like it wet.
2. Sprinkle a layer of small stones or pebbles in the bottom of your pot.
This will provide just enough drainage so that your terrarium won't drown.
3. Add a sparse layer of chunky charcoal.
I chopped mine up with old gardening scissors but you can smash it with a hammer too.
4. Add a 'well' of sphagnum moss.
They guy at the nursery said terrariums like to be 'cuddled' by sphagnum moss. Naaaaaw! Also say 'sphagnum' a few times out loud. It's such an awesome word to say.
5. Add soil if needed and your plants.
My plants provided enough soil but you may need to add more. I wanted a very dense terrarium so I packed them in. I chose a Venus Fly trap, a few small ferns and some Baby Tears as a grass like filler in the gaps.
6. Trim all the dead bits off your plants.
7. Place in a bell jar.
* Don't be scared of charcoal and sphagnum moss. They're very normal things that you can buy at the nursery.
* Bell jars and bottles can be found at industrial vintage stores. I bought mine from 84 Smith Street and they ship Australia wide. I found the pot on the side of the road a few years ago (true story) but you can get similar ones at nurserys. You can also build them in fish tanks, wine bottles and light globes.
* Ask at the nursery which plants they recommend for terrariums.
Have you ever made a terrarium? Do you totally think that fairies live in there?
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This is so weird – I was literally googling how to make these a few days ago!! I am going to do it today!!
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You totally should! They're so much fun!
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I'm so in love with mine!
My boyfriend bought me one for my "not valentine's day" present. I love it. It's (rather unimaginative) name is Terry. It eats flies.
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That's extremely cute! 🙂
nurseries! but the terrarium looks awesome X
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Argh! Thank you love. Sometimes my brain goes weird. 😉
I have never made one … I can't even pronounce it. I am intrigued though.
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Like it sounds! Ter-ah-ri-am!
How will you feed your Venus fly trap?
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He doesn't need flies to survive! And we can lift the lid to give him water/food!
Fairies totally live in them! I love terrariums to look at, but I kill everything planty – and also all things fishy 🙁
Yours looks awesome, Smaggle, all the more so for being made by you!


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Everyone experiences emergencies from time to time. For some Silicon Valley residents, however, each day is a struggle for financial stability and independence. When an emergency hits, they need somewhere to turn for help.
United Way Silicon Valley, eight partner agencies, and seven law enforcement agencies have joined to create a safety net of essential services for all Santa Clara County residents. The goal is to stabilize individuals and families during times of trouble and help them return to self-sufficiency. The Emergency Assistance Network provides a variety of services to prevent homelessness and act as a safety net for residents facing eviction, utility disconnection, and hunger. The EAN offers assistance to help families and individuals recover from emergency situations, often providing case management and financial education in conjunction with:
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Pictured right: Two long-time champions of emergency assistance work. Nancy Tivol, (retired) Sunnyvale Community Services Executive Director, and Toni Ensunsa, who served our community as a United Way staffer for 20+ years.
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The Yum! Brands US-based company KFC is one of the most popular fast-food restaurants in the nation and has had significant market share growth outside of United States. KFC's global growth strategy was easy: Expand by staying local! Understanding the local cultural, economic and regulatory differences becomes a key element in any global business strategy. Let's take a look at KFC's market penetration success story in China, for example.
With its "Go Global, Act Local" market penetration strategy, KFC adapted their fast-food model to fit the Chinese market by positioning itself as a native company, not a foreign. Specifically, KFC's success in China was accomplished by taking the following strategic steps:
First, KFC identified customers' likes and dislikes at the local and cultural level. Besides chicken, it serves food that appeals to Chinese tastes, items you'd never find on an American KFC menu: chicken with Sichuan spicy sauce, rice, egg tarts, and soybean milk. It is also part of the Chinese culture to eat in groups, so KFC offers larger dishes for sharing.
Second, KFC hired managers who read and speak the local language, who understand the Chinese consumer, the restaurant trade, as wells as the Western way of doing business.
And finally third, KFC carefully followed Chinese strict foreign investment laws and entered into Joint Ventures with local producers – a departure from its traditional US based franchise approach.
Although Chinese market often represents a huge risk for many foreign companies, KFC's "Go Global, Act Local" market penetration strategy created and filled an untapped marketplace by identifying and prioritizing cultural, business and regulatory sensitivity. Since opening its first store in Beijing in 1987, the KFC has grown to over 3,800 locations in 800 cities with finger lickin' performance. Colonel Sanders' recipe was secret, but KFC's success in China is not.
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It's Hurricane Day! Win a Cruise Critic Hat and Poncho Combo
September 10, 2012 | By Dan Askin | 2 Comments
Cruising the Caribbean in the late summer/early fall — the height of Atlantic Hurricane Season — can be an interesting proposition. Ships do have a distinct benefit over hotels: they can move to avoid a storm. Still, there may be few dicier days to cruise than today.
Statistically speaking, September 10 is the peak of Atlantic Hurricane Season. We're not making this up. Analysis of storm records from the past 100 years shows the 10th to be the "busiest" day of the year. (See it on this graph, plotted by the National Hurricane Center.) We've had at least one named storm on this date for the past several decades. In 2012, we have two. Tropical Storm Leslie is spinning northward toward eastern Canada, days after skirting Bermuda and impacting a cruise. And Hurricane Michael has been powering its way through the central Atlantic; fortunately, there's nary a threat to land.
While we're not busy blowing up the "Happy Hurricane Day!" balloons, there is one reason to celebrate. Up for grabs are a trio of Cruise Critic hat-and-poncho combos, which will arguably keep a cruiser dry in rainy conditions.
Entering is easy. Anyone who's subscribed to the Lido Deck Blog as of Friday, September 14, at 5 p.m. EDT will be automatically entered to win one of the three packages. We'll pick the winners at random and reach out to them Friday at 5 p.m. EDT. The winners have 72 hours to claim the prize. Any unclaimed prizes will be added to the Lido Deck prize pool, Powerball-style. (Note: Future prize lots will be divided, if necessary, at our discretion.)
Back in the pool is a chocolate brown passport case dual-embossed with Allure of the Seas and Starbucks logos — the first cruise ship version of Starbucks debuted on Allure in 2010. Inside you'll find a $10 Starbucks Card, which can be used at sea or on land. The first randomly selected winner of the hat-and-poncho combo to claim that prize will win this one, too.
Perhaps that could brighten up a stormy day at sea.
Stay up to date with the weather-related impacts on cruising. Bookmark Cruise Critic's Hurricane Zone.
80, 74, 39 … learn about hurricanes by the numbers.
Find out how storms get their names.
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George Roberson
September 10th, 2012 @ 2:58 pm
No hurricane in Jam!!!!
Steve Dwyer
September 10th, 2012 @ 3:31 pm
Where were they things when we were on the Valor sitting waiting for the storms to pass so we could get back to Miami lol
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· Each evening find time to listen and talk with your children.
-Listen to what they are saying and how they are feeling. Use this opportunity to enlarge vocabulary.
· Let your child know how proud you are of their academic growth and accomplishments.
-Remember to praise the small achievements.
· Encourage and support your child's school work daily.
-Sit down with them to look over assignments, papers returned, and homework.
· Instill a strong work ethic and can do attitude within your child.
-Praise, encourage, age-appropriate chores, and share stories about how hard work and persistence pays off.
· Make sure your children see themselves as problem solvers.
- Make problem solving a fun part of your home. Read problem-solving stories together. DIY projects together. Teach your children to break any problem into manageable parts, so tasks do not seem impossible.
· Reading each night, school work and other academic activities over nonacademic activities.
-Set age appropriate standards in your home about academic expectations.
· Help with homework when needed.
-Provide a quiet, well lit, place with everything needed to do school work.
· Get to know your child's teacher.
-Ask about your child's academic strengths, weaknesses and how you can help.
· Bedtime Reading each evening.
-Approximately thirty minutes before bedtime the only activity should be to read books in bed.
-Learning at home by Rhonda Cratty is a parent resource, filled with ideas to help children become the best they can be. Daily activities for family fun, that make subjects become more than pencil and paper, moving learning into everyday life. Learning at home can be purchased in print or eBook form through http://www.amazon.com/dp/1494917203
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Corgi. Even the sound of the very word is enchanting. It means dwarf dog in Welsh. But, you even think you know the breed: they are often referred to as the Queen's dogs. You would be correct. Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain was raised with them and owns several Pembroke Welsh Corgis. Well, this year's 138th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was about the other Corgi. The one with the tail; the Cardigan. And, the word excitement does not begin to define the mood when discussing the win with her principals or other inveterate Corgi lovers.
It's post-Westminster and Grand Champion Cardigan Welsh Corgi Riverside Telltail Coco Posh is causing Cardigan breeders phones to ring off the hook. Websites are getting record-breaking queries. The history making Cardigan who took Best of the Herding Group, brought Corgi owners around the world to their feet. And why? Because both breeds, the Pembroke and the Cardigan just don't get noticed much at shows along side the likes of the German Shepherd Dog or Border Collies. It was downright discouraging, especially if your life was enhanced by a Corgi, as mine was. I shared thirteen inimitable years with a Pembroke. It was the opportunity of a lifetime.
For Coco, a Cardigan Welsh Corgi to take the Group was history in the making. Such an enormous win! Well, the Garden just won't be the same. Coco, now known forever as the Corgi With The Tail, has made the world sit up and take notice. As co-owner Dinah Planche of Baton Rouge, LA. put it, "Coco mania is sweeping the country!"
At first glance, Coco seems to take her celebrity in stride at almost 10:55 EST. She knew one thing for certain: a few tosses of her Flippy Flopper Flying Disc down the hotel corridor would do nicely before bedtime. Dinah reports they order them by the case...And after all, she and handler, Lois DeMers had been up since early Monday morning for the Best of Breed judging. That win allowed her to advance to be judged in the Herding Group. Yes! Right alongside that German Shepherd Dog…Imagine her uniqueness!
To get this far, I've asked her breeder Deborah Shindle to take a look back at the hard work: the physical, mental and emotional toll of raising a champion, the expense and selflessness notwithstanding. The dogs are everything. After conversing with Deb, I realized one has to be on your game 24/7 to breed a dog like Coco. It's not for the faint of heart, nor wallet for that matter. And, as the story unfolds, the goose bumps begin!
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Mondain38 wrote:I think I know why you keep getting this message. It's because someone else is "sharing" your registration code. This begs the question: "How can another person be 'sharing' your registration code?" Simple, really. A warez site somewhere has generated a series of "serialz" for The Sims 3 so that selfish people can download and play this game for free ! Unfortunately for you, one of these "serialz" just so happens to match your own game's serial number (registration code). I'm afraid that you have no choice but to re-buy "The Sims 3". This time, I'd suggest that you buy the DVD from a store.
A similar phenomenon has been known to occur with people who use Windows Vista. Warez purveyors typically use a "keygen" to generate spoofed product keys for their "customers" (you know, those selfish people who download and run Windows Vista for free) to use to activate Windows. Unfortunately, when one of the generated "serialz" matched someone's *actual* Windows Vista Product Key, then both the warez copy of Windows and the genuine copy with the same Product Key would be automatically deactivated remotely by Microsoft. Both copies of Windows Vista would then go into "Reduced Functionality Mode".
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Xinhua Jianguo Hotel Zhengzhou
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- Address: No.22 Ren Min Road, Henan,zhengzhou
- Tel: 66287788 (Book this hotel, call 800-2682918)
- Hotel Name in Chinese: Xinhua Jianguo Hotel Zhengzhou
- Lowest Price: $49
A gracious climate mixed with a mesmerizing culture, history, intriguing spots of interests, and lucrative business opportunities; this is the incredible city of Zhengzhou.
The location of Jianguo Hotel Xinhua in Zhengzhou is at close proximity to all the fantastic things this city has to offer and can easily take you to all the places that are a little farther off.
The Jianguo Hotel Xinhua in Zhengzhou is one of the most luxurious accommodations in town. It comprises of 150 wonderful rooms meant for guests of varied requirements and tastes. Some of the room facilities at Jianguo Hotel Xinhua in Zhengzhou that these rooms have are AC, mini bar, safes, television, telephone, and more.
Opened in 2003
- Prices not include 18% service fee and tax.
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- Triple/quad occupancy may require an extra bed at extra cost.
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Strong Summer Beer Season Boosts Constellation In Second Quarter, Wine And Spirits Up 3%
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- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 medium onion , chopped medium
- 2 carrots , peeled and chopped medium
- 3 large cloves garlic , minced
- 1 pound ham steak , chopped fine
- Pinch sugar
- 1 pound dried split peas , picked over and rinsed
- 6 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- 2 cups water
- 1 bay leaf
- Ground black pepper
Melt butter in large stockpot over medium heat. Add onion, carrots, garlic, ham, and sugar; cover and cook until vegetables are soft, 8 to 10 minutes. Add peas, broth, water, and bay leaf; increase heat to high and bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until peas are soft, about 40 minutes. Discard bay leaf and add pepper to taste. Serve.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Last month, when I wrote about how I was raising the prices of my jewelry because of the record-high price of gold, I promised that I would answer some frequently asked questions the next day, including the one that's straight out of Dumbassville: "Why don't you buy cheaper gold?" (Apparently people think I love overpaying!)
I started a new post and got as far as writing: "Gold is basically the same price everywhere in the world. Why would anyone sell it for less than they can get?" Then I thought, "Fuck it. Not only have I explained raw-material costs many times on this blog, but I've also patiently answered the 'cheap gold' question in person. Some folks just don't want to hear what I'm saying." Fortunately, I remembered Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update in the '70s, when Garrett Morris played the Headmaster of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing.
I realized that, like SNL's Chevy Chase, I needed to call in experts to help me shout enlightenment. First, I got in touch with Juan Carlos Artigas, the investment research manager of the World Gold Council. The World Gold Council is the market development organization for the gold industry. Its 22 members include the world's leading gold mining companies, which represent about 60% of global corporate gold production. I asked him to start with the basics and explain the "spot price" of 24K gold, which is the price people refer to when they say, "Gold is trading at $1600 an ounce."
Artigas said, "Think of what it is not. In many commodities, sometimes people refer to the futures price … they would get delivery of a particular commodity in a future time. Spot price refers to immediate transaction, right here, right now. It's the actual price of the transaction at that moment." He added, "Gold is a 24/7 market. There's no closing price. It trades all the time every day, like currency … the only thing you see are snapshots of the price at any given point in time."
However, the spot price doesn't include extra charges you may have to pay when you buy gold, such as broker commissions, transaction and storage fees, delivery fees, and seller markups, so it is very likely that if you want to invest in gold, you will pay more than the spot price. I asked Artigas if there was any way to reduce those fees and, in that way, buy "cheaper" gold. "As with any market it works on an economy of scale," he said. "When you have small quantities, the transaction fee is going to be higher. The more you buy … the markups are smaller." In other words, it's the same situation I described in my posts Get Smart (About Manufacturing) and Get Smart (About Quantity) — the people who can spend the most money get the best discounts.
Okay. So the small investor is going to pay the spot price plus transaction fees. But how about going to another country and buying gold in the local currency? Every once in a while, I see people online claiming that gold can be purchased more cheaply in Sierra Leone or Saudi Arabia. "A bar of gold … will be the same in another part of the world," Artigas said. "In terms of the base price, there shouldn't [be a difference]. Any difference would be whatever commission or transaction fees are charged. The base price, the price per ounce, should be roughly the same." In other words, the cost in local currency will be adjusted to equal the dollar price you'd see on Kitco.com, Bloomberg or any other source of gold spot prices.
I was relieved to know that I don't need to go to Sierra Leone to save money. "But why is gold so high now?" I asked Artigas. (Since I spoke to him, gold hit a new high of over $1600 an ounce.) He said that though people tend to focus on what is happening in Western markets, "Gold has had a measured appreciation in part because of how emerging markets are growing. Gold performance over the past 10 years has been very linked to India and China." He noted that in those markets, gold is often purchased in the form of 22K or 24K jewelry as an investment. "It's worth noting in many of these regions, there's no hard distinction between what you would buy for adornment and what you would buy to preserve capital and save." That's different from what we do in the U.S., where people generally buy 14K or 18K jewelry to wear and invest in 24K gold separately. The 24K gold is pure gold, which most fine jewelers here don't work with because it is too soft to hold its shape. Customers tend to complain if their rings wind up looking square after a few wearings. Therefore, we mix the gold with other metals to make it more durable: 18K gold is 75% pure gold and 25% other metals, while 14K gold is 58.3% pure gold and and 41.7% other metals. That's why 18K and 14K are less expensive than 24K — because you're getting less gold. If gold is just an investment for you, you want only the gold, not a bunch of other metals.
It's not just India and China driving gold prices up. Artigas said, "The other story behind gold's performance has been that of central banks," which are the organizations that regulate monetary policy for specific countries or regions. "They've experienced a structural shift over the past several quarters — especially since 2010. Central banks around the world were net sellers — the majority would be selling gold — for the previous 21 years till 2009. 2010 marked the first year that central banks became net buyers. Little by little, European central banks which were the primary source of gold selling started to slow down their sales. Little by little, emerging markets started to acquire gold for their foreign reserves. As emerging markets were buying and Europeans were slowing down their sales, central banks became net buyers." We all know lots of demand drives up price. If you have something everyone wants, you can charge more, right? Like if you stand out on a street corner with a bottle of ice-cold water, and it's 10 degrees Fahrenheit out, you might able to sell it for $1, or not at all. You might just watch people rush into Starbucks to buy hot coffee. But if you stand on the street with a bottle of ice-cold water and it's 100 degrees Fahrenheit, like it's been in New York City, you might be able to get $2 or even more. That raises the question of why gold is to central banks like a bottle of ice-cold water on a hot street corner. Well, it's similar to what gold is to individual investors: a way to diversify holdings with a universally recognized commodity. As Artigas said about individual investors, "We are in a new world order … the economic recession marked a change in attitude among investors about the assets they're interested in. Risk management [is] so important in the investors' psyche, and has made gold a main component of a portfolio." He added, "It provides investors with an asset in their portfolio which is not going to be affected by the same thing as … equity and credit. It is valuable [in different] cultures and countries."
Ah, yes, the individual investor. The most basic investment advice is, "Buy low, sell high." (Please note that you don't have to buy something at the lowest point and sell at the highest point to make money. You just have to sell at a higher price than you bought.) Therefore, it grates on my nerves when people tell me they want to buy gold the day it hits a new high, BECAUSE it hits a new high. These are always people who don't follow the price of gold, as I do all day, every day (there's an app for that!). They've just heard on the radio that gold has hit a new high and "someone" says it will go higher so they need to buy it right now. Jebus! At least wait for a damn dip. There's always a dip, and I always buy on a dip. For instance, maybe I couldn't afford to load up on gold chains for my necklace designs when gold was trading at $1550 an ounce. But gold is $1618 an ounce as I'm writing this, so you better believe that if it falls into the mid-$1500s, I'll find some money so that I can run to my wholesaler and buy a couple of chains. Hell, maybe I'll even buy a chain when gold next dips to the $1590 range. But the day that gold hits that new high? I'm not buying THAT DAY, no matter what folks say on NPR.
I needed to find someone to explain this annoying investor behavior to me. Stephen Wood, who is chief market strategist, North America, for Russell Investments, came to my rescue. Wood is one of Russell's experts on the economy, capital markets, portfolio strategies and behavioral finance. He said, "What behavioral finance teaches us is that it is the design of the human brain and the way it processes information and arrives at actions, can all too often be detrimental when it comes to investing." For example, he told me that people find it reassuring to do what everyone else is doing, so that when gold (or another investment) hits a new high, they feel successful and smart if they buy into it. That's the exact opposite of Joseph Kennedy — the super-rich dad of John, Robert and Ted Kennedy — who famously got out of the stock market when he started getting stock tips from the shoeshine boy.
One of Wood's colleagues had mentioned that investors wanted to sell their Japanese-related investments right after Japan's big earthquake in March, when such investments plunged. If they'd done that, they would have sold at a low and missed a recovery. Selling on the news of the quake seemed similar to buying gold on the news of a record, so I asked Wood about whether it's smart for the individual, non-expert, non-economy-of-scale investor to transact based on the latest news. He said, bluntly, "Usually, any action in response to a cataclysmic event is not in your best interests. You are not the only person on the planet with a TV; the info is widely and instantaneously distributed to all global investors. Especially natural disasters – they tend to spike volatility and then subside. Always ask yourself, what is your investment edge? Your value add?"
Getting back to gold specifically, I asked if I was obliged to concede that someone was a smartypants if s/he bought gold on the day it hit a record as long as gold did, in fact, go higher after (as it is likely to continue to do). I was relieved when he answered, "Buying gold at $1500 and having it rise to $2000 would seem to be good. Especially if you can be disciplined enough to sell and book a profit. But ask yourself for the future, was it luck or skill? And how can you tell the difference? Is it repeatable?"
Wood said it's all about the greater fool theory: "People who buy only rapid price momentum, suspecting or not caring that fundamentals don't warrant that price — they are hoping that someone (some buyer) will pay an even higher price than they did in hopes of finding an even greater yet fool." Sounds like the real-estate story, doesn't it? Everyone thought real estate could only go higher, until it stopped going higher and the people who bought at the high were screwed.
"The gold market is a very misunderstood market," Artigas of the World Gold Council told me. "It's interesting how many investors and many people may have opinions … even the ones who do like it as an investment … do not necessarily understand what is behind it." If you do think you understand it, Artigas said there are many ways to get in on the action: "Investors can buy coins, bars, buy futures and options or purchase gold-backed ETFs (exchange-traded funds), which have opened an opportunity for investors to access the market in vehicles traded on exchanges — you can see the price in the same way you can follow the price in your bonds or stocks." But don't come to me asking where to go to make these transactions, because I'm going to tell you to consult your investment adviser. And if you say to me you don't have an investment adviser? Well, I'm not going to be your free investment adviser, bitches! You're welcome to buy gold jewelry from me instead. Not only will you get the value of the gold but, as John Keats wrote, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." You can't put a price on beauty.
41 Responses to "Get Smart (About the Price of Gold)"
I am also a jewelry designer, but don't work in 18k gold very often, just because of the end price. Almost no one knows how much gold is trading for on any given day, especially our clients and/or people who buy semi-precious and not fine. My blog focuses on many topics, beauty, style, fashion, elegance, a bit of whimsy and an occasional rant, therefore, I hope I keep people interested in returning day-to-day. Your post here is extremely difficult to read and not get the feeling you are talking down to the very people who might purchase your merchandise.
Can I be wrong? Whatever, you don't have to publish this comment, but I feel you are coming at this very aggressively. Please understand, I don't want to offend you…just saying. Marsha
Oh, no, Marsha, you were so rolling with aggressively offending this blog, why suddenly draw back at the last minute? Weird tactic, just saying!
I'm fairly sure that everything I know about investing I have learned from your blog. You explain it all so well! Thanks 🙂
I love your Get Smart posts!!
It's interesting though, I've actually heard that the new all time gold high was due to the current state of things in the US economy and especially the possibility of a default…
My mom and I had seriously talked about investing in gold years ago when it was $500 an ounce. So wish we had because I'd be selling the hell out of it to your for way less than the market price! 😉
Every day on the radio I hear the alarmist ads. It's hilarious that anyone thinks that if/when all hell breaks loose in the world that we'll remain so civilized as to use gold to get what we need. Ha! Loved your tweet a while back – learn how to grow your own food and invest in lead for bullets.
This was a great post Wendy, a lot of the time people don't stop to think of all the economical issues which effect prices, it is hard enough getting people to appreciate craftsmanship let alone background costs.
Mr B. is a wise man! 🙂
Good advice! Sounds like you might have a disciplined contrarian bias to investments. I'm a contrarian, except when I'm not. 🙂
As long as you're right more often than wrong, things work out ok…
Excellent post. It frustrates me that this kind of information tends to mystify people as it just doesn't seem that difficult to understand.
Btw, your tone never seems aggressive to me at all. It's a funny-edgy-smart tone that makes me feel my intelligence as a reader is assumed and respected. And no one else I know of fiercely defends inclusiveness and diversity as much as you do in writing about fashion and beauty!
"As MrB says, you can be a bull or a bear as long as you're not a pig." So true.
Bravo for a brilliant post, Wendy!
You're right about 24K gold being both an investment and jewelry in India and China. For Chinese brides, it's customary to receive necklaces, bangles and rings in bright yellow 24K gold as gifts when you marry. I've been to many a banquet where the bride is in her red qipao wearing all of her gold gifts at once. I've also noticed that I rarely see them wear the gold pieces afterward. It's probably because the pieces are too soft for everyday wear, but God forbid you get a bride less than 24K as a wedding gift for fear of looking cheap!
I attended several weddings when I was in Asia, and I loved the gold-adorned brides! I also bought some of that soft, 24K gold, wondering if I should sell…:)
I was recently looking at my mom's wedding jewelry. The gold is so beautiful but yes so soft! And yes, it just sits in her jewelry box, unworn since the day of her wedding 30+ years ago!
Wendy, this is so, so good, you put in terms everyone can understand. Your skills in explaining complex things this way continue to amaze. As someone who has followed gold prices, I continue to be staggered as it climbs ever-higher, I'm old enough to remember when it was $400.
Sending you a smile,
What a fantastic post on gold investments. Your blog bar none is one of my favorite reads! (And yes, yes indeed gold prices are nutty these days. I've been watching as well, as my day job company, a JV firm, also invests heavily in gold mines.)
Great post, smart cookie!! This post is a good insight for the economically challenged to understand what drives prices up an down.
I don't think I've been one to ask a stupid question here…but I really liked stumbling across this explanation here. Helped me understand things besides your costs.
Always one of my favorites, "Buy cheaper gold." You mean gold PLATED?? Chevy & Garrett… oh God, I miss the old SNL's.
By the way, you need to walk with some pep in your step these days lady. Somebody might knock you out and take some pliers to your tooth! LOL
The ins and outs of every business is always so interesting to me. I'll need to go back and read this entry more carefully later, but I always find the discussion about the price of gold so interesting. And even more so how closely people follow it.
Planet Money has been doing an interesting series on gold. I'm not sure if you've heard any of it yet, but here's the link: http://www.npr.org/templates/a.....=133252308
This is not on you Wendy, but the commenter: It's a commodity. Commodities have a market. The price is the price.
Also loved your comments on buying high, seling low–or how to make a bubble.
Aggressive tone? What a load of fucking bullshit mate! Great post Wendy. Still baffled by why peeps don't get it. Pack of deludinoids!
Going against the first commenter – I love your posts like this. I have very little knowledge in such things, and am happily glad to be educated in between posting of covet-able jewelry and delicious style posts.
These posts are bare bones facts, relatable comparisons, and yes even good advice.
After scrolling back up, I realized you had already made the comparison I was about to make. Consumers are jaded by the Walmart standard and don't recognize how and why gold is prized. Fine jewelry is an investment. I wear a 14K band and silver ring daily, because I understand there will be wear and tear (I'm very hard on my hands). Anything else would be an investment piece and recognized as such, like my inherited jewelry that mostly stays in storage.
This is one of the more cogent posts I've seen on the problems a lot of jewelry makers face in regard to costs of gold. I think people in the Western world have a difficulty because they don't understand that gold is currency. Hence the 24/7 spot prices around the globe, as you note. Many in India get it. Good post.
This is one of your best posts ever!
Thank for explaining what's going on in the gold market…too many people just don't understand.


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