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Editor's Note
Slavery and Its Definition
Jean Allain and Kevin Bales
The BellagioHarvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery
The Scourge of Slavery: The Contemporary Reality of an International Human Rights Challenge
David K. Androff
Absolving the State: The TraffickingSlavery Metaphor
Julia OConnell Davidson
Rethinking Trafficking: Patriarchy, Poverty, and Private Wrongs in India
Alison Brysk and Aditee Maskey
Children Trafficked to the United States: Myths and Realities
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak
Debt-Bondage Slavery in India
Sarah Knight
The Many Faces of Slavery: The Example of Domestic Work
Virginia Mantouvalou
Child Domestic Workers: Protected Persons or Modern-Day Slaves?
Jonathan Blagbrough
Forcing Children to Bear Arms: A Contemporary Form of Slavery
Michael G. Wessells
Abused Migrant Women in the United States: Progress, Challenges and Recommendations
Gabriela Wasileski and Mark J. Miller
Repairing Past Injustice: Remarks on the Politics of Reparations for Slavery in the United States
Thomas McCarthy
Libya: The Road to Regime Change
Hafizullah Emadi
Volume 14 ● Number 2 ● Summer/Autumn 2012Slavery Today
Rethinking Trafficking: Patriarchy, Poverty, and Private Wrongs in India
Globalisation's Victims
Contemporary slavery, including human trafficking, is best understood as a particular form of human rights abuse by non-governmental perpetrators—"private wrongs" in which the state fails to protect its citizens and/or outsources its authority to abusive businesses, families, and criminals. While the enslavement of tens of millions of Africans in the Americas was state-sanctioned and sometimes state-sponsored, modern slavery operates in the gaps of governance: in rural backwaters, failed states, and the freefall of illicit migration. The victims of most current forms of exploitation are second-class citizens and "disposable people"—women, children, outcastes, and the marginalised poor.2 Contemporary slavery is a predatory strategy of commodification of fellow human beings in a privatising world. In this "race to the bottom", traditional inequities and stigmas are brands, signalling who can be exploited and how. Women are especially vulnerable to the sex trade—but they are also vulnerable to exploitation in the "maid trade", and any other traditional role where domestic disempowerment meets globalised displacement.
Globalisation creates "people out of place" who are unable to enjoy the resources of citizenship, whether or not they cross borders. Since capital is mobile but labour is fixed in place, those who cross borders become illegal migrants denied the protection of sending or host states, and vulnerable to all forms of abuse by smugglers, employers, and governments. On the other hand, those who stay at home are often displaced by globalising forces from their former productive niche, traditional community relations, or physical location within the country. In most of the developing world, people who are unemployed, landless, work in the informal sector, single mothers, street children, rural–urban migrants, and ethnic minorities are also all second-class citizens subject to exploitation and enslavement.3
Anti-trafficking policies are based on an assumption of free individual women, or parents on behalf of children, who are coerced or egregiously misled to be smuggled across borders, and then continuously pressured and abused to engage in sex work. It is assumed that such women would not engage voluntarily in sex work, that other employment options do not exist or are not exploitative. The coercive model of trafficking evades a deeper analysis of globalisation's structural pressures on decision-making in households, and of the social delegation of authority over women to households rather than state authorities in a kind of embedded second-class citizenship.
First, anti-trafficking policies framed to protect "innocent" women from sexual slavery ignore or slight prior sex workers, or other women who migrate voluntarily to engage in sex work but are subsequently exploited—often the most vulnerable populations. Second, international policy, and especially American policy, focuses disproportionately on culturally recognisable European victims of East–West traffic, when the vast majority of victims are inter-regional or within borders in the global South. Third, policies often aim to stop commercial sex rather than the violence, exploitation and other harms associated with it—and with other forms of labour and migration. Lastly, this perspective often inspires a response of rescue rather than empowerment of victims, often followed by a return to the unrecognised abuses that began in the home community.
The international abuse of women grows from pre-existing domestic practices of commodification of female reproductive labour, such as prostitution, forced marriage, and domestic service, and from the patriarchal control of women's movement, education, and employment—enforced by gendered violence. The supply-side factor of gender inequity is a better predictor of exploitative trafficking within and across borders than either general problems of globalisation or prostitution policy, and shows when and where women will be especially vulnerable to sexual forms of contemporary slavery. Yet most of the debate focuses on generic problems of poverty and the legal treatment of prostitution, without incorporating specific attention to power and patriarchy.
Contemporary Slavery in South Asia
Asia has a long history of the exploitation of labour, indentured servitude, and unpaid labour. Contemporary slavery in South Asia can be attributed to traditions of debt bondage in the agricultural sector, of society's tolerance of sexual exploitation, of girls being "offered" to religious deities via clergy and worshippers, and to the entrenched caste system that compels lower-caste groups to perform hard physical labour in slavery-like conditions, often over generations. Advocacy groups estimate that up to sixty-five million people are in bondage in India alone. A study commissioned by India's National Commission for Women found that 62 per cent of women in commercial sex work were from scheduled (untouchable) castes.4 Inter-generational prostitution also keeps successive generations of its victims in the sex trade.
According to ILO estimates, there are 21.6 million child labourers aged from five to fourteen years in South Asia (India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). India, with an estimated 12.6 million working children, has the third-largest labour force of children in the world. The Indian agricultural sector, including plantations and commercial farms, employs 80 per cent of India's child workers and 70 per cent of working children globally.5 South Asian child labourers are paid as children but employed as adults, often working twelve to fourteen hours a day with minimal or no pay. Besides debt bondage and prostitution, child labour includes a host of hazardous occupations in the manufacturing and service sectors—from making hand-knotted carpets to toiling in stone quarries and brick kilns. Children are also employed as beggars, trash pickers, domestic servants and in the hotel and restaurant industry. Children, particularly boys, have been trafficked to the Middle East for domestic servitude, camel racing and seasonal begging during major religious events.6 During the armed conflicts in Nepal and Sri Lanka, children were recruited to carry out high-risk military tasks as well as to act as porters, pamphleteers and informers.
Globalisation has resulted in South Asia's becoming a low-cost, labour-intensive production centre. Poverty, coupled with landlessness, loss of traditional livelihood options, lack of education and market skills, ethnic, caste and gender discrimination, regional conflicts, natural disasters, and high levels of corruption, forces people to migrate to urban centres or abroad. Migration policies frequently exclude the unskilled and the uneducated, mostly women, who out of desperation seek alternative and often illegal means of crossing borders.7 South Asia has a history of seasonal migration for employment purposes. Because of the culture of arranged marriages, girls and women often marry total strangers and migrate to places unknown to them. These migration patterns and routes are capitalised on by the traffickers, who might be family members and acquaintances, so that what starts as a harmless migration can rapidly turn into a situation of abuse and exploitation.
All forms of human trafficking exist in South Asia—prostitution, forced marriages, trafficking of children for adoption and organ transplants, begging, debt bondage, and hazardous labour in the agricultural, manufacturing and service sectors. Much of this is cross‑border trafficking in the guise of migration for employment. Bangladesh and Nepal are the major source countries, while India and Pakistan are source, transit and destination countries.
The Global Alliance against Trafficking in Women and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific estimate that in recent years three hundred thousand Bangladeshi women have been trafficked to India, and two hundred thousand to Pakistan. Since India and Nepal have an open border policy, the majority of Nepalese cross-border victims end up in India. The ILO estimates that twelve thousand girls are trafficked annually to India for prostitution. Reports indicate that Pakistan is a transit country for Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia for bonded labour, including commercial sexual work. Sri Lanka is reported to be a common destination for paedophiles.
People are trafficked within each country, across national borders (such as from Bangladesh and Nepal to Pakistan and India), within the region (from South Asia to South-East Asia) and to other regions (such as the Middle East, Europe and the United States). Women who work as domestic help in the Middle East face a high level of physical and sexual abuse. There have been various reports that the passports of such women are seized once they reach their destinations, limiting their freedom to seek protection or leave the country.
Patriarchal traditions and gender inequity in India have resulted in the feminisation of poverty, exacerbating women's vulnerability to labour and sexual exploitation. Three-quarters of Indian women are illiterate. Some 90 per cent of rural and 70 per cent of urban women are unskilled.8 Women's poverty is more severe than men's because of unequal access to land, productive resources, information, skills and education; female poverty is also exacerbated by forced marriages, domestic violence, workplace harassment, and by women's bearing the primary responsibility for unpaid domestic and subsistence tasks. Indirect discrimination in access to food, care, medical treatment and education, and subjection to physical and sexual violence, have resulted in high mortality rates for girls and women. As home- and farm-based subsistence opportunities are on the decline, more and more women have had to leave their traditional spheres of life and migrate to urban centres or foreign countries to work as unskilled labourers. Being uneducated and unskilled, these women lack basic information about employee rights, let alone bargaining power, are often duped by fraudulent agencies and charged exorbitantly, and remain in bondage-like situations to pay off their recruitment debts.
Sexual Slavery in India
Surprisingly little international attention is paid to human trafficking in India, although that country represents one-sixth of the world's population and is well-known to suffer other forms of contemporary slavery. One reason trafficking in India is relatively invisible is that it is mostly regional and domestic rather than North–South or East–West; this accords even greater importance to its study, since enslavement is often more harmful in lower-resource environments with weaker states. Another reason India's trafficking is overlooked but especially salient is that India is a rapidly globalising democracy in which rising social inequality is increasing the "citizenship gap" between rights in theory and in practice for many marginalised groups—especially women. Even as the public sphere in India modernises, a panoply of patriarchal practices that disempower women persists and even deepens—from sex-selective abortion to dowry deaths—illustrating how private-sphere inequity fuels private wrongs. And, as in many developing-world democracies, in India corruption undermines mandated protection of female citizens and participation in international human rights responses to contemporary slavery.
India is a source, destination and transit country for men, women and children subjected to trafficking in persons, especially for forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation.9 While much attention has been paid to cross-border trafficking for sexual exploitation, India's Ministry of Home Affairs estimates that 90 per cent of sex trafficking in the country is internal, intra-state (from rural to urban centres) and inter-state (from poor to rich states). Globalisation and the economic boom have led to an increase in non-brothel-based sex work in India, particularly in hotels, bars and massage parlours. Structural and economic change in the agricultural sector has increased the proportion of casual workers. The casualisation of female labour increases women's vulnerability to sexual exploitation.10 Research by India's National Human Rights Commission in the south of the country, where there is a high level of trafficking, shows that girls from large and poor families in areas prone to drought and natural disaster are increasingly trafficked.11
Girls face multiple forms of discrimination in South Asia. As soon as a female child is born, parents worry about dowry. In the rural poor backwaters, girls have less access to nutrition, education and life skills. They are married off early, and considered the property of the husband's family. On the pretext that no dowry need be paid, traffickers lure poor families to marry their daughters to total strangers in the Middle East. Female foeticide (sex-selective abortion) is a modern-day reality in India and has led to a fall in the female-to-male ratio in many states. Grooms who cannot find suitable brides in their community "import" brides from other states, sometimes through the forced marriage of minors.
In an action research led by the National Human Rights Commission in thirteen states of India, it was found that 71.8 per cent of survivors of sex trafficking had married when they were below eighteen years of age. A quarter of the married respondents had been sexually assaulted by persons other than their husbands (mostly by members of the extended family and neighbours). Some 41 per cent were abused when they were less than sixteen years of age, mostly by relatives, neighbours, school staff, and the police.12 Once sexual exploitation becomes public knowledge, then it is the victim who is a social outcast. A married daughter bearing the social stigma attached to rape or other forms of sexual violence is seldom welcomed back by the parents. In such cases, women move in order to escape oppression or stigmatisation, and become vulnerable to trafficking.
Traffickers are usually not strangers; a significant percentage of victims are trafficked by their own relatives (husbands, parents, in-laws, extended family members) and acquaintances. Most female traffickers "double up" as sex workers, and are themselves victims and ex-victims of commercial sexual exploitation.13 Female traffickers go back to their communities, flaunt their wealth, promise lucrative jobs or marriages and coerce others to join them.
Current policy responses in India take a crime rather than a harm focus. The stigma attached to trafficked victims is very high. Sex workers, even if they have the freedom to leave, do not do so as they have nowhere else to go. Whenever there are police raids on brothels, it is the sex workers who are arrested as the "accused", and who are then bailed out by their brothel owners and taken back to work. Of the income from paid sex work, the brothel owners get the major part; the rest of the earnings have to be shared with agents and sometimes even with law enforcement officials. Around 61 per cent of the victims interviewed by India's National Human Rights Commission revealed that they had no savings.14 These findings highlight the causal link between poverty, powerlessness and prostitution.
Those who do escape or secure greater intervention from government or non-governmental organisations are rescued from their immediate predicament rather than rehabilitated. Research shows that rehabilitation measures in India are not up to speed and that not all rescued victims receive rehabilitative services. Those rescued and taken to shelter homes have been critical of the quality of counselling and vocational training offered on site. Because of inadequate rehabilitation and reintegration measures, many rescued victims are "re-trafficked" into exploitative work.15 Moreover, there is a strong emphasis on reuniting victims with their families and reintegrating them in their own communities. Since research has shown that a significant number of victims are trafficked by family members or acquaintances, or leave voluntarily to escape abuse, oppression, or stigma in their communities, alternative reintegration options must be found for those who do not want to return to their places of origin.
Corruption is a major factor that perpetuates human trafficking in India. The study by the National Human Rights Commission showed that police figured regularly in the clienteles of the brothels surveyed, and that "free" sexual services were provided to police, politicians, legislators and traffickers in return for protection and to promote business.16 The poor are more vulnerable to weak governance and are at increased risk of being trafficked. Contributing factors include the absence of effective legislation and enforcement, of institutional structures in addressing human rights issues, and the exclusion of poor and disadvantaged groups (women, indigenous tribes, low castes) from basic social and economic services.17
Rethinking Trafficking
Analysis of the patterns of trafficking in India suggests that we must rethink our approaches to contemporary slavery and sexual exploitation in South Asia—and consider how these patterns should influence interventions throughout the global South. With one of the highest levels of contemporary slavery in the world, South Asia has seen little regional co-ordination in this as in other policy areas. While the political will to protect its citizens has arguably increased in India, governmental concern is less visible in the neighbouring source countries—and like most host nations worldwide, they pay little attention to demand or to the gap between policy and practice.
First of all, the preponderance of regional and internal trafficking means even more emphasis should be put on tackling the root causes: poverty and patriarchy. Development and empowerment are clearly the best preventatives. India and its neighbours must enforce free and compulsory high-school education for girls and boys. Concerned international actors should implement income-generation schemes tailored to the changing socio-economic landscape of agrarian societies. Democratic states and rising civil societies can press local governance structures to monitor and account for human rights issues—including caste/ethnic/gender discrimination, domestic and sexual violence, early and forced marriages, dowry oppression, and rape and killing in the name of honour.
Since most of the cross-border trafficking stays within the region, and builds upon pre-existing patterns of labour migration and marital exchange, a far more effective way of confronting the problem than policing borders would be to increase migration rights and monitoring for women. In order to move women and girls out of second-class citizenship, governments must enforce free and compulsory birth registration, which is the only way to ensure legal and reliable identity documents and access to government services. Overall, the focus must shift from hindering migration to addressing human rights violations during migration. Orderly migration can be improved by including provisions for unskilled and uneducated migrant workers in existing migration policies, with simplified guidelines and procedures. Lastly, host countries should give special attention to migrant education to improve the bargaining power of unskilled migrant labour.
Finally, the corruption that is endemic throughout the region is particularly nefarious for the most vulnerable victims of human trafficking. Private wrongs thrive in decentralised, opaque environments, and only the collective capacity of the state can counter the multiple sources of powerlessness of "disposable people" within their own communities. Corruption in law enforcement is worse than corruption in economic development, because it robs citizens of security as well as resources. Corruption in trafficking is worse still, because it goes beyond tolerating illicit economic activity to embed local authority in the systematic exploitation of women and children. Since India is beginning to participate in international standard-setting, and to revise national legislation, enforcement is clearly the missing piece and the next step. Recent anti-corruption protests in South Asia are a promising beginning, empowering civil society to demand greater accountability for private wrongs.
2. See Kevin Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999).
3. For the impact of globalisation on vulnerable groups, see Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir, eds., People out of Place: Globalization and the Citizenship Gap (London and New York: Routledge Press, 2004).
4. National Commission for Women, A Report: Societal Violence on Women and Child Prostitution, 1995–96 (New Delhi: National Commission for Women, 1996).
5. Chandrika M. Kelso, "Child Labour and the Trafficking Industry in India", in Global Trafficking in Women and Children, ed. Obi N. Ignatius Ebbe and Dilip K. Das (Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, 2007), p. 68.
6. Sarasu Esther Thomas, Responses to Human Trafficking in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka: Legal and Policy Review (New Delhi: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2011).
7. A. K. M. Masud Ali, "Treading along a Treacherous Trail: Research on Trafficking in Persons in South Asia", in Global Survey of Research on Human Trafficking, ed. Frank Laczko and Elzbieta Gozdziak (Geneva: International Office for Migration, 2005).
8. Asian Development Bank, "Combating Trafficking of Women and Children in South Asia: Regional Synthesis Paper for Bangladesh, India, and Nepal", Manila, Philippines, April 2003.
9. US Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Report 2011 (Washington, D.C.: State Department, June 2011).
10. Asian Development Bank, "Combating Trafficking of Women and Children in South Asia".
11. P. M. Nair and Sankar Sen, Trafficking in Women and Children in India (New Delhi: Orient Longman for the National Human Rights Commission, India, 2005), p. 9.
12. Ibid., pp. 72–3.
13. Ibid., pp. 282–3.
14. Ibid., p. 81.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., p. 127.
17. Asian Development Bank, "Combating Trafficking of Women and Children in South Asia".


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Senior co-captain Jaci Gassaway and sophomore Erin McMunn will provide a huge 1-2 punch for the Tigers on offense. The pair combined for 37% of the team's scoring last year. Gassaway had 54 points on 38 goals and 16 assists, while McMunn had 48 points on 30 assists and 18 goals. During fall ball, McMunn showed new confidence in shooting and will be a scoring threat as well.
The top Tiger midfield unit is talented and tested. Senior Charlotte Davis will be a leader in organizing the unit. She was fourth on the team in scoring last year with 20 goals and five helpers, and was solid on defense and through transition for the Tigers. Controlling the center circle is the duo of junior Sarah Lloyd and sophomore Erin Slifer. The tandem combined for 44% of the team's draw controls.
The defense should be the backbone of the Tigers this year. Headlining the unit is senior co-captain Caroline Rehfuss, who has been a starter since her freshman year. She was third on the team in caused turnovers last year with 11, fifth in ground balls with 15 and had five draw controls.
Back in goal is sophomore Annie Woehling. Woehling started in all 15 games last year and made 101 saves for a .412 save percentage and a 9.50 GAA.
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Princeton and Villanova met for the first time last year. The Tigers won their season opener 16-3. The game's leading scorer was Jaci Gassaway with five goals and two assists. Erin McMunn had two goals and three assists. Mary-Kate Sivilli, Chalotts Davis, Erin Slifer, Grace Bowen and Sam Ellis each had two or more points. Annie Woehling picked up her first career win in goal making three saves.
Scouting the Wildcats
Villanova returns 26 letterwinners and eight starters from last year's roster. With 40 players on the roster, Princeton alum and Villanova head coach Julie Young '01 has options. The Wildcats did lose their top gun from last year. Sophomore Jackie Froccaro,. sister of Princeton's Jake and Jeff, has stepped into that role early. The sophomore led the team it's 10-9 loss to Lehigh last weekend, scoring five goals. Freshman Shannon Galvin and senior Annie Fallon both had two points. Villanova has veteran leadership on the defensive end with senior co-captains Shawna Giust and Sarah Moody. Goalkeeping is still a question mark as three different goalies saw time against Lehigh. Junior Julia Todd got the start and made three saves on 10 shots to pick up the loss. Senior Amanda Hirschfeld started the second half and made one stop on four shots. Senior Dani Wiedmeier played the final five minutes and stopped the only shot she faced.

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WARWICK, R.I. -- The University of Rhode Island was getting ready for commencement when the severe storms of March and April hit.
For Anne Gregson, who handles risk management and insurance for the university, flooding was the last thing URI needed.
"This is usually a very busy time of year for us," she said. "The March rainstorms added to the work that needed to be done to prepare our campus."
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Well there has been some compromises made, like we won't be able to see how interest rates are decided upon. Or why the OBAMA administration is so afraid of the Citizens seeing where THEIR MONEY was spent. The Amendment in no way audits monetary policy.
What we will see are the TRANSACTIONS made by those in charge of OUR MONEY! WHERE's THE TRANSPARENCY?
BERNIE SANDERS SAY'S "The Bill Would allow the GAO to conduct a top-to-bottom audit of all of the Federal Reserve's emergency lending activities since December 1, 2007. In addition, the modifications require the Fed to put on its Web site all of the recipients of over $2 trillion in emergency assistance since December 1, 2007,"
But it's still the GAO. And it doesn't go far enough, in my opinion. When the GAO audits the government, It's a lot like letting the Fox guard the chickenhouse. We need and want that TRANSPARENCY that Candidate OBAMA talked about in his campaign.
What is so secretive about showing the AMERICAN PEOPLE who wrote the check, why and to whom? Ben Bernanke is up in arms, "this might curve your spine, corrupt your mind and keep the country from winning the war." Actually here are Ben Bernanke 's comments.....
"Such amendments, if enacted, would seriously threaten monetary policy independence, increase inflation fears and market interest rates, and damage economic stability and job creation," Bernanke said.
I for one would like to see how much of the 1.5 trillion in TOXIC assets the citizens of the United States now own. And ask Senator DODD why he took this provision out of the package being debated. ( Was his countrywide mortgage among those that were taken over by all of us?)
I also believe we as citizens have the right to know who knew what and when about the greatest RECESSION since the great Depression. This audit should shed a little light on those facts.


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What's In Store for Barrick Gold's Q3 Earnings This Halloween?
Helen Burnett-Nichols
Cost containment is still the main issue, says one analyst.
Third quarter earnings reports are starting to filter in from the gold sector, with many shareholders likely hoping that the results bring better news than Q2's numbers.
Barrick Gold
(NYSE:ABX) is set to release its Q3 results before market open on Thursday, and is expected to earn around $0.50 per share on revenues of $2.91 billion, says Donald Selkin, chief market strategist at National Securities.
Last quarter, Barrick
a net loss of $8.56 billion, or $8.55 per share, reflecting $8.7 billion in after-tax impairment charges driven by declines in spot prices and its embattled Pascua-Lama project in South America. The miner also cut its quarterly
from $0.20 to $0.05 in the summer, while shareholders
for faster changes to the company's board. Barrick shares have fallen 43.5% so far this year.
"The main issue with [Barrick] once again is cost containment in light of lower gold prices, and also whether or not they can increase or cut production," Selkin tells Minyanville. "Their best hope for the latter is the Pascua-Lama gold mine in the Andes Mountains between Chile and Argentina," he explains. In Q2, Barrick said it expected to reduce capital spending at Pascua-Lama by $1.5 to $1.8 billion in 2013-2014.
(NYSE:GG) kicked off earnings season late last week,
adjusted net earnings in the quarter of $190 million, or $0.23 per share – beating analysts' expectations by $0.03 per share.
The miner's net earnings came in at $5 million or $0.01 per share, compared with $498 million or $0.61 per share in Q3 2012, while Goldcorp's Q3 revenues were $929 million. Last quarter, Goldcorp reported a net loss of $1.93 billion or $2.38 per share.
Although Goldcorp did beat its earnings estimate in Q3, one of its problems, says Selkin, is that it has a high forward price/earnings ratio of 18 relative to other types of mining companies that have forward ratios of 15.
"On the other hand, this is compensated to some extent because they have lower debt levels. The main question going forward for this company as for other gold miners is whether or not they can contain their costs in light of lower gold prices, and whether they can increase production," he says.
In a statement, Goldcorp President and CEO Chuck Jeannes said that the company's focus on "operational discipline and cost containment" delivered positive results.
"Most of our mines saw meaningful reductions in costs compared to the previous quarter, with particularly impressive improvement at some of our higher-cost operations such as Porcupine in Ontario, [Canada]" he said.
However, Jeannes also mentioned challenges for the miner's Cerro Negro project in Argentina, including permitting delays, an "unsustainable" foreign exchange rate, and provincial taxation uncertainty. "In response, we have suspended exploration and deferred certain development activities at Cerro Negro, and we are revising our guidance for first gold production and capital costs," he said.
Overall, the miner narrowed its guidance for 2013 to between 2.6 and 2.7 million ounces at an all-in sustaining cost of between $1,050 and $1,100 per ounce.
As for
Yamana Gold
(NYSE:AUY), the miner
Q3 net earnings of $43.5 million, or $0.06 per share, after Tuesday's market close, which was down from net earnings of $60 million or $0.08 per share in the same quarter of 2012, partly as a result of lower commodity prices. Yamana's adjusted earnings were $69.5 million or $0.09 per share, compared with $177.6 million or $0.24 per share in Q3 2012.
Yamana's revenues were $456.7 million in the third quarter, compared with $611.8 million in Q3 2012.
Also on the schedule this week,
Newmont Mining
(NYSE:NEM) is set to release its earnings after the trading session ends on Thursday, but investors will have to wait until after market close on November 13 to see
Kinross Gold's
(NYSE:KGC) Q3 earnings report.
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Called "Nanaimo. Infinite Possibilities," the corporation's new brand was conceived and designed by the local firm Impact Visual Communications in under three months after extensive community consultations and research for $24,700.
The new design, which has six symbols rising from the top of the "O" in Nanaimo, represents the inclusivity, economic opportunity and the diversity of the local community.
The NEDC, which is tasked with promoting economic development and tourism for Nanaimo, also announced the launch of a new website at www.investnanaimo.com at the ceremony.
The website provides profiles of many businesses in the city, information on local infrastructure and transportation corridors and other relevant information businesses need to make strategic decisions.
Sasha Angus, CEO of the NEDC, said many communities are also vying to attract new economic opportunities in an "incredibly competitive field" and the NEDC felt it needed a "strong and distinct brand" for the city and region.
"This professional and progressive new brand allows us to put our best foot forward in a competitive marketplace," Angus said.
"We reached out into the community for input and feedback on the development of the design and what we heard was that there are infinite possibilities and unlimited potential in this city and region that we should be showcasing to the world."
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The first of the six symbols in the new brand is a leaf that represents clean technology, ecotourism, growth and the region's native heritage while the second symbol, a home, represents residential, community, hospitality and lifestyle.
The third symbol, a star, represents arts, culture and sport tourism while the fourth symbol, a square, represents industry, investment and retail.
The diamond-shaped fifth symbol represents a graduation hat and symbolizes education and a skilled labour force while the last symbol, a sail, represents the marine environment.
Angus said the NEDC has earmarked an additional $10,000 to "roll out" the new brand and logo over the next few months in media ads, tourism videos and other venues.
He said he thinks the entire investment is well worth it.
"Some say a simpler and less expensive brand would have been best but we did our homework and reached out to the community and stakeholders to make sure it was reasonable," Angus said. "This brand encompasses all aspects of our community and that was what was determined to be needed."
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"This summer we have a special program or activity for every member of the family with many opportunities to learn and grow through play during the hottest months of the year," says Sheridan Turner, Museum President and CEO of Kohl Children's Museum.
The museum's spacial summer programs include:
Baby and Me Time
Mondays, 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Parents of newborns can network while asking a nurse from Advocate Lutheran General Hospital questions about infant care at no cost.
Garden Buddies
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
This series take place in Habitat Park where children can learn about seeds, weeds, worms, fruits and vegetables, plus pollination.
Nature Encounters
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
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It would be interesting if...'All of the gold mined in human history, from King Solomon's mines to the bars still in Swiss bank vaults bearing Nazi eagles,.... would be a a cube with 66.6 feet on an edge.
That is a guessimate of course...........
No one knows how much is at the oceans floor, or buried.
In Solomons time, silver was as common as stones in the streets.
When he built the Lords temple, King David for his part gave 500 talents of Gold,and 700 talents of Silver.
I did a rough est on costs at '85 Gld/Slvr prices on just King Davids part.
The Gold was approx One Trillion-Six Hundred eighty billion,one hundred million worth.
The Silver was approx 683 Billion dollars worth.........so a tad over 2 Trillion in '85 PM's cost at spot.
Found that a tad interesting.
Isn't question buying gold or a growth stock/bond as investment rather than holding US$s as investment ? Which is a better hedge against inflation-- gold or stocks/bonds in some combination depending on risk tolerance. Perhaps a comparison of Dow or S&P for same period would be more valid
TURD nailed it......their bustin it DOWN..........LOL
Like Clockwork.
Purcased krugarands in early 80's at $500 per oz. or coin and immediatly went down to $400. After more than 20 years it has rebounded and doubled in price with no dividends. How many on ZH consider this a good investmant?
and if holding krugerands kept you out of the 1987 crash, the dot.com bubble popping, the downturn in 2001/2, the decline from 14,000 down to 7000, etc, then yes, the krugs were an excellent investment
lots of people have watched their 401Ks turn into 201Ks (or less) during the same period you held the krugs
as many point out, it's not an investment, it's a preservative
What cost $500 in 1982 would cost $1096.98 in 2009.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2009 and 1982, Had you just held the dollars, they would be worth 54 cents in purchasing power. With gold at 1300, have you not successfully protected your purchasing power?
they would cost you $500 and $213.74 respectively.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2009 and 1982,
Had you just held the dollars, they would be worth 54 cents in purchasing power.
With gold at 1300, have you not successfully protected your purchasing power?
I do, since you have REAL money..........as a LT Investment in the USUAL sense, no, but from we're stting now, I am sure your Investment will pay off handsomely within 24 mos.
Less than one ounce of gold per person on the planet.
Just how many dollars per person on the planet do you think will be circulating in 5 years?
I'll take my chances with the precious metals.
There are more dollars than grains of sand in all the beaches in the world.
GLD owns mostly futures contracts promising the gold. Until we get an independent audit, we have no idea what physical they may even have in a warehouse. Additionally, as some major bank will act as their custodian, that bank may elect to lease and sell that gold and put yet another claim ticket in the vault.
Also, gold's production peak in 2001 still stands, despite a banner 2009 in terms of production.
If you want a scarce PM, try platinum. 82M ounces of gold mined last year against 4.6M of Pt.
Want the BEST PM?,check the stats on Paladium,when this run started it was $128.00, at $256.00 I started to load up..sorry I didn't.
Up 77%, I dig ya on the Pt, I remember going into my local large dealer, and snagging some Eagles in the late 90's, it was only about $50.00 an oz more then, than Gold.
LOL...did I buy any?.hell no,(IDIOT).
"Until we get an independent audit"
since we're talking about things that will never happen, let's ask them to explain "deep storage gold"
GATA Says Much of U.S. Gold Reserve is Encumbered
Then in an August 7, 2001, letter, John P Mitchell, deputy director of the U.S. Mint, offers no explanation why 1,700 tonnes of U.S. Gold Reserves stored at West Point, N.Y., were reclassified in September 2000 from "Gold Bullion Reserve" to "Custodial Gold." In May this year all 7,700 tonnes of the U.S. gold reserves in Treasury Department depositories were reclassified as "Deep Storage Gold."
Mitchell says the U.S. Gold Reserve was "not reclassified -- it was renamed to better conform to our audited financial statements."
"But Mitchell offers no explanation why that change is being made now. Could it be that these changes to conform to accounting principles were necessary because of the dramatic reduction in SDR Certificates and encumbering of the U.S. Gold Reserve?" Murphy asked.
"This is most frightening," Murphy says. The U.S. Government defaulted on its gold obligations in 1933 and 1971. Could it be happening all over again?
Just like baseball players, the US and many other nation economies have been on anabolic sterroids {cheap credit}for many years and now are unable to grow the consumer base without stimulus. Even worse, it will take many years to get off the high and go through painful withdrawal . Productive capacity is still available but ability to pay for debt{RE,credit card,auto and bank loans,etc.} leaves the consumer comitose. Do not understand how purchase of gold can change this situation except as a hedge against currency collapse . If thats the case , everyone should have a limited amount of gold for survival security or burial expense to be more precise. However gold does not meet the criteria of a good investment for the greater good of an economy. Finally , gold does represent a speculative trade with inherent risk in which case you ought to be knowledable about supply/demand, gov't policy, jewelry market, extent of survival market and insider speculation by the "big boys". The latter got us into this mess and leaves the individual trader at a disadvantage .
Had I not ever found ZeroHedge some two years ago, I would be retired in St. Bart's with millions in gold profits and simultaneously, I would be sitting here typing this if I had paid 100% percent attention to the trashing of the stock market on ZH.
So. It's break even. At best, even with the most acutely intelligent minds ever assembled on one web site.
I think I'll just go have a cookie.
St Barts, that's even more dangerous derivative than GLD. Read up about anti-whitey riots in Bahamas, Virgin Islands and Curacao. There is nothing there. Who you gonna call, Eric Clapton? The locals will take all your gold for one piece of smelly fish?
They have good reason to hate white people, for things like the oppression of electric power, refrigeration, and modern medicine
My guess is that the real reason that gold mining slowed down over the years is because there has been no practical need for much gold mining.
We sure changed that, artificially creating an economic reason to mine gold. Its price was increased relative to multicolored paper products.
Holders of gold only win if its price increases at a rate greater than the risk free rate, otherwise it makes a nice shiny paperweight.
No, the known reserves are way less, and what is available/known,is deeper, and far harder to get to than in the past.
Also, now miners have to worry about all these frigging Chavez tin horn dictators Nationalizing everything.......
THe whole world is a bomb.
South African Gold is damn near gone, what's left is at around 7 miles deep.
China is #1, and Russia is like #2,but both are keeping all they mine, and buying more off the open markets.........
Russia has bought several tons this year alone, and the Chinese never tell,say their not(to keep the price down), and do it on the sly..typical Commie Bstds.
I was there with you for the whole article until the end when you said to do call spreads. Paper gold could end up being the worst possible investment of a lifetime. right in principal but lost all my money.
The thing is holding cash in Aussie banks will be risky according to Prof Keen and normal stocks too risky. So were to protect your money. Only thing I can think of after reading around a bit is gold stocks, gold, silver and some cash on hand.
A bit difficult to buy gold coin and bullion here at good prices. Coins have too much premium so I set up an account and use the Perth Mint certificate scheme. There is a minimum transaction amount of $5k.
Finally an Aussie....LOL
Perth Mint is owned by the Western Austrailian Gv't,this has always thrown me.
How many Gvt's do you folks have?.
Perths storage fees are around, what?,$250.00 a year....and you can get physical if you pay the shipping, insurance.
So, if you do not trust the banks, why would your trust the Western Gvt?.
In a couple of weeks we are gonna find out if these so called gold companies have learned anything over the past couple of decades - or are they still as dumb as doornails? I mean if any of these gold companies show less than a SPECTACULAR earnings number with gold trading where it is - why then - Houston we have a problem. Because - I for one dont trust these basturds. These guys tend to hedge at the wrong time, make acquisitions at the wrong time, pay themselves all kinds of stock options, do trades with related companies etc etc - ie. small minded, small time crooks - crooks the bunch of them - Any wonder the gold stocks are still where they were when gold was at 1000 an ounce? Not surprised at all. I treat these guys as guilty until proven innocent.
Having had personal experience in the gold mining industry, and knowing others whose careers are intimately involved with it, I can tell you that the managers and owners of the major and junior companies, almost without exception, are completely and utterly reactionary and short-sighted in the worst and most self-damaging ways. For example, they will sit on cash, and their thumbs, for years during the inevitable downturns in their industry (and nothing says "Boom and Bust" like mineral exploration), all while their producing properties continue to exhaust themselves, then panic and try to hastily assemble and start up exploration projects yesterday once the boom is back on, instead of planning ahead and spreading the necessary exploration work out over time,and often spending three or four times as much as they otherwise would have had to in the process.
I swear, it must be some kind of mandatory requirement for gold-related mining or exploration companies that their managers have Attention Deficit Disorder, as most of them seem to have all the long-term focus of an autistic child at a carnival and the memory capacity of a geriatric goldfish. Time after time, year after year I have seen them collectively shoot themselves in the foot with their foolishly short-sighted and kneejerk decisions, and I can only wonder if this is indicative of that industry in particular, or of American business "leadership" in general.
Unlike the bullion banks gold producing companies are only able to sell what they mine and refine. Growth is limited by what comes out of the ground and the increase in price.
The bullion banks "trade" and take the vig on every trade, plus they trade 100 times more than they have in physical.
Soooo- GLD bought 16 TONS of gold in just one week. Hmmm- I wonder who they bought it from? Is there some moron, peasant out there who is just itching to sell 16TONS of gold to an ETF? Why? Because .. well he is a moron peasant ? Why? ... Because he has great faith in what the central bankers have been doing? Just who the hell sold 16 TONS to GLD?
Or was it some kinda paper derivative deal - where they efectively are "long" 16 TONS of gold by .. ya know - buying a call, selling a put - stuff like dat? Or are we talking about honest .. like actual physical, 16TONS - the kind that a peasant like me can drop on the floor? Huh?
Only if you're a really big peasant.
We already know the answer to that statement, they added SHIT.
They have ACCESS to it, if they had to have it............bottom line, my $$$ is on they leased rights to it.
No one outside the IMF has 16 Tons that they would outright SELL.
a miner?
"My question is: Is it not so that if the USD is dropping in 'real' value and loosing its position as world-leading currency, that the value of gold in USD is also something to be carefull about.. I live in EU and got myself a few ounces of gold a while ago.. in Euros the stuff went ballistic for a while, peaking at Euro 1040 or something.. great.. But this was actually for a big part a drop in value of Euro compared to USD.. so we could see now something simmilar happening to the goldprice in USD, simply the drop in value of the USD is causing this 'run to the peak' of the goldprice.."
Last week I did a test:
Change 10,000 Swiss francs into either GBP, EURO or $, then buy gold in those currencies using the prices gold is for sale for on Bullionvault in those currencies and see what the differnence in weight in gold is....
Answer: 0.06 kilograms less gold if I changed the CHF to $ and bought in $, than if I changed the CHF into pounds and then bought gold in pounds!! (Euros gave me just less gold than using £)...
BTW, the pumpers on 321gold, kitco, etc. are selling to you not buying with you. The same crew are the ones that were pumping in October 2008 as bullion prices collapsed. They were lucky the markets came back or they would have been hunted down.
Commentators all have agendas, mine is I could care less what you do. I am only giving an experiental perspective after 3 generations of knowledge. When the pumpers keep telling you to stay in something is amiss.
When it comes to stocks my motto is - you make profits when you take profits, not a bad idea after a 30% lift from August.
I never hold gold stocks I trade them
Thinking of buying some more Perseus tomorrow.
What a jerk, he calls this late in the game. Silver is finally climbing to what is probably it's real value after being gang raped for years. Gold which had it's share of munipulation is now starting to spook the banksters as the sheeple toss out their fiat bum wipes for some real money.
I see that US fund managers are now after Australian gold mining stocks, apparently they are 50% under valued in comparison.
<quote>Nth American funds buy Aust gold stocks Rebecca Le May
September 30, 2010 - 5:19PM
American fund managers have junior Australian gold stocks increasingly in their sights because of their relative cheapness and exposure to a rising gold price, says miner and explorer Focus Minerals Ltd.
Chief executive Campbell Baird said US and Canadian investment funds expected the gold price to continue climbing from record prices around $US1,300 per ounce, to $US1,500 per ounce in coming months.
"There has been significant investments by the large American funds into Australian listed gold producers over the past two or three months," Mr Baird told a Western Australian Mining Club function in Perth on Thursday.
"The valuations of Australian gold companies versus the valuations of Toronto-listed gold companies are literally at a 50 per cent discount," he said.
"The Americans are starting to wake up to that.
"The view is that this valuation, with the rising gold market, is going to be corrected some time soon.
"They're betting on it."
Must be good timing as last week I got into our miners...
Just curious of how gold mining stocks perform during a crisis?
As a holder of 3 gernerations of gold and silver (No others since I/we don't understand the value of platinum and palladium.) I need to caution some folks here.
Be prepared for some dips ahead. PM''s will crucify the leveraged. It is NOT an investment - it is protection.
Gold has a funny way of making people go nuts. Our family going back 3 generations never left the gold standard. Yes we are barberous relics. All of our children were taught to honor and protect these assets as they represent the hard work and strife of our forefathers. Our forefathers handed down their wealth in gold and silver bullion. (never a peice of paper). Each generation took the key to the box and NEVER sold anything.
We accumulate. My adivse to you all to do the same and don't see this as a 2002-2020 thing. Train your brains to hand down some of your assets in physical form. You children and grand children will benefit.
Don't be surprised if you see a 20-30% peel off next quarter. It is part of the game. Most of you are very sophisticated traders and investors (except for JB). Use common sense.
Most importantly get your wits about you. Do you honestly think the banksters are not gonna ruin your day. Or at least try to.
We are due for a correction so don't trade - For thos eof you who own physical isn;t it interesting the feel of real wealth? It makes you truly appreciate what gold/silver is.
You do realize that by calling for "peak gold" you've called the top within the year, and we're likely to decline 50% from here. Damn.
capital markets are out of whack when a shiny metal that has very few actually uses is valued as one of the biggest US corporations.
Gold at these rates is selling belief.
It may go up a lot more, but this bad boy may snap back quick style. When the heat is on, will it be liquid gold?
Another cliche filled article about the "barbarous relic".
The article says that gold is going to 7,800 based on peak gold, yet cautions on risk? Surely there's no risk if your analysis is of any worth?
Can someone tell me the diff of content .999 to.9999 on 1 OZ. Maple leafs?
Canada increased the purity of gold maple leafs in 1982. I believe in 1982 there were 0.999 and 0.9999 fine coins made. In 1983 and thereafter, all 0.9999 pure. So called three 9s pure versus four 9's. The current American Buffalo is four 9's pure, but the American Eagle is only 90% pure, the other 10% being copper. It has a full ounce of gold, but pure gold doesn't handle well. This composition dates back in America to the beginning of gold coinage in the 1800s.
.0009 (9/10000) of an ounce more of the gold in the coin. It signifies a higher ratio of the precious metal in the coin. .9999 is what they term "4 nines"
It is actually a very miniscule difference though. I believe Canada has up to a "5 nines" Maple Leaf.
It is all sales gimmicks for the coin geeks. 3 nines is just fine. It probably costs less and it's gold:)
This is wrong!
There is one ounce of gold in the coins.
.999 means one part in 1,000 impurity at most (impurities can be Ag, Pb, Cu, etc.)
.9999 1 in 10,000 and .99999 1 in 100,000
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2$ you'll never be able to cash in.
Stick with the 0.999 to 0.825 coins. Higher grades cost so much more because getting them more pure cost a lot of money.
And at the end, you're buying sterling silver that might one day get melted into one big pot.
You can get coins in Belgium, we can't here, for a lot lower premium.
Me, I do not want anything less than 22k............or so damn close to it it's barley measurable.
Overseas folks do not care for Eagles, and Krugs,as much as the 24k slugs.
Sterling Slvr?, what's the content in that crap?.
Sudden.. love your avatar, but was asking why 1oz gold maple leafs are quoted when selling to Kitco in .999 or.9999 content.
great answer, Chicago bear - you must be an engineer
it's fun being literal!
Very astute Jay. It seems there are certain years that contain a tinch more gold. I have not been able to suss this out.
It was a serious question and not chacpt.


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More than two years after thousands of veterans were put at risk of disease from lax sterilization practices at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals, federal inspectors said Tuesday that weaknesses still existed, posing "potential safety risks to veterans."
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J.P. Morgan Chase said Friday it will pay $27 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the bank of overcharging members of the military for their mortgages and prompted a federal investigation, a congressional hearing as well as public outrage.
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Published: January 25, 2012
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April 30, 2001
Arizona coaches will conduct the John Mackovic Football Camp in two sessions in June, affording area youngsters and prep players a quality coaching experience in football fundamentals.
Session I, for players 8 years old through 8th grade, will be held June 11-13 on campus. Session II, a senior camp for players in grades 9 through 12, will be held June 13-16.
The first camp is a day camp from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day. The second session is a commuter and overnight camp with more detailed instruction, meals and morning/evening practices. Players will stay in UA dormitory facilities, under supervision.
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Living in Downtown West Palm Beach Condos
If warm weather and lots of nighttime activities are your idea of the good life you may want to check out a few downtown West Palm Beach condos. The heat, the beaches and the nightlife are all common selling points for new home owners in this area. Between 2000 and 2010 more than 17,000 people moved to this hot spot. With a population of around 100,000 this city has enough activity to keep you busy and enough quiet spots to keep you sane.
West Palm Beach Florida has much to offer prospective residents. Because the housing market is still recovering, it is much easier than usual for buyers to get into a luxury condo for far lower prices. Downtown West Palm Beach Condos for sale typically average between $200,000 to over $2 million. The price comes with the perks. With job growth averaging almost 19 percent and average temperatures ranging between 57 degrees and 90 throughout the year this may be just the place for sun lovers.
West Palm Beach hosts over 3,000 restaurants and nightclubs. Toss in the beaches and boardwalks and downtown West Palm Beach condos have a lot of perks.
A few things to know about living in Downtown West Palm Beach:
Monthly fees for condos in this area tend to be a little higher than the rest of Palm Beach. While they average around $500 a month, the benefits are also better here. Most fees include concierge service, fitness centers and a pool.
If you are looking for something a little quieter focus your search away from the east end of Clematis Street. During the summer there are a lot of parties and concerts in this area, drawing crowds and noise.
If you like being active, take advantage of the over six miles of bike trails and paths located throughout West Palm Beach. If you are an animal lover, be sure to stop by the 5-acre animal sanctuary at McCarthy's Wildlife Sanctuary.
Downtown West Palm Beach has several public transportation options including taxis, a bus system and a train system. The bus service (PalmTran) was recognized as an innovative service with an Urban Community Transportation award in 2006. The Tri-Rail runs from West Palm Beach to Miami.
If the beach ever gets boring, there are more than a few alternate activities and adventures for families with or without kids. There is plenty to offer for young and old residents including Palm Beach Segway tours, airboat rides, scuba diving, art museums, parks and gardens.
For more information or to schedule an appointment to view a few of the downtown West Palm Beach condos on the market, call Modern Living Real Estate at 561.228.8420.


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It is a matter of place and of time. Because of this there are many interchanges that take place. Of these there is one that we may call 'entering the garden sometime after midnight.' It is in this place and time that the reality of becoming and being switch places. The one is inhabited by the other or visa versa come morning. Now in this reversal of roles there is one very important aspect to be considered; that is the role of maker.
When your focus is that of setting up the days events it is quite different from living out what has been set out before you. Therefore the role of Maker assumes a predominate role at this time. The Maker is typically misunderstood as being somehow far away or above or even in some ways aloof apart from the situation of becoming of being. Nothing could be further from the reality of Maker.
Maker not only is intimately a part of the totality of its creations but is also irrevocably linked to both the aspects of becoming and being as they intertwine to give verification to the Maker throughout its role of superseding the events that are taking place every moment except of course during the actual making. That is another story altogether.
All of these insights may only be realized in the Garden sometime after midnight. This is a time honored tradition. Perhaps it is because of the quiet of the night or more likely a combination of that quiet and stillness of the soul that finally has a chance to commune with and become the Maker. This is something that causes inspiration to flow and to overflow. It is with this purpose that the Maker appears, seems to disappear and then is suddenly revealed right in the middle of everything.
Another reason for the appearance of the Maker at this time of the diurnal day and night is that Consciousness has established it so. It is a natural unfolding of the sun and the moon and various constellations, stars in the heavens that repeats itself over and over again. Therefore during this time, these moments are filled with the wisdom of the ages literally ripening like fruit upon the vine they become gems of insight that are there to be gleaned by the enlightened. It is this gleaning process that takes place in the blink of an eye causing so much quality information to come pouring through that it makes even the most brilliant daily observation seem dull in comparison.
These moments in the Garden after midnight are a condensation of the days events sharing their meaning and opening up the way for the Maker to operate now in a conscious way as opposed to an unconscious dream like state. What is crucial to this state of being is the establishment of the Maker and the consciousness of the process that is taking place. When this consciousness has been fulfilled then the work is then by definition done. B"H


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Riley Rossmo's latest series at Image Comics is nearly indescribable, because it's not entirely clear what's going on. There's a guy, some weird things and an ex-girlfriend.
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"Rebel Blood" #3 is an incredibly fast read with nonstop blazing horror action.
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Italian Contrasts
Amalfi, Umbria and Rome - 2009 Untours Journey
Al & Jo Toepfer
This book is a record of our trip to the Amalfi coast, Umbria and Rome in June 2009.
Alan Toepfer has traveled extensively for business and pleasure, and has photographed in the U. S., Europe, Russia, South America, Japan and Antarctica. Landscape, wildlife, travel, and hot air balloons are his main subjects.
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The graphic novel 'Shifter' was released in October 2013 and is being actively promoted at comic book conventions as the next big thing for graphic novels because with a smartphone (iPhone or iPad being your best options), you get augmented reality extras once you download a book specific app.
Heavily dependent on the software Poser, the illustrations are stiff, but richly detailed. As an artist you won't see a stylization of characters except perhaps in the depiction of animals and creatures from the past.
There are several books with similar names which can make things confusing. This "Shifter" is a science fiction murder mystery and not the 2008 paranormal romance by the same name. Note to self: Check out possible titles before settling on one.
This is the second title by Brian Haberlin and Skip Brittenham. The first was "Anomaly." The illustrations are by Brian Haberlin, Geirrod VanDyke, Kunrong Yap and Chan Hyuk Lee. David Pentz is in charge of the technology. Is this list looking less like a book and more like a movie? That's the problem and the beauty of technology, in this case augmented reality. It takes a team to make a book publication ready.
Plot: We're first plunged into the cold and damp somewhere in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean far from land. We're on a whaler and the harpoon misses its mark and instead, a creature that should have been long dead surfaces and prevents the whalers from hitting their mark. It's "Nemo of the Sea Monster World." Just like one of the whalers, you're wondering, "What the hell?" when the scene shifts suddenly to a bird's eye view. We're in what seems to be an airplane. Soon enough the scene shifts and we realize we're in an office and watching a computer video fed by a drone to an ordinary office.
Noah Freeman is a low-ranking civil servant who finds an possible error and brings it to the attention of his female boss. The dam's brimming with water and he's wondering why water isn't being released and why and how the dam filled up so quickly. His advisor says she'll take care of it and Freeman is off of work. He walks a bit with his co-workers who are teasing him about his upcoming nuptials. At home, he talks with his fiancee via a computer live feed. Then on Saturday morning, on a beautiful day in autumn, he goes for a hike and has an accident. Noah should have died, but instead he encounters an advanced technology, an operator sphere that Noah nicknames Jeeves, hidden in a subterranean cave that heals and updates him and gives him the power to operate the body of a creature from a vast menagerie from Earth's distant past to the present. He can even become a primitive woman who dresses Hollywood cave woman sexy. What do you expect? This is an adventure written by men mostly for men. Since she is one of Noah's creature surrogate, she doesn't eventually get clothed in normal looking clothes, more Clark Kent non-descript than colorful superhero wardrobe changing.
The catch with inhabiting a creature is that you have sort of a mind meld that can lead into a meltdown and if one should be killed while operating that lifeform, one is dead for real. Not even the technology of the operator sphere can undo death so this isn't a zombie world.
Noah's accident was more like a murder attempt, so Noah hijacks various surrogate creatures through this technology to find out why a hit was put out on him only to learn he's been framed for a murder. He must find a way back to his fiancee who is in danger.
There's some jumps in logic such as why the primitive woman Casya doesn't require the same upgrades and time as Noah did. The ending might seem rather flat emotionally. Love isn't one of those things the advanced technology operator sphere understands and in this case, a superior being doesn't want a common earth-type like Lois Lane, but another superhero. That's love in this century.
Art: This graphic novel uses the software Poser. The colors are saturated and made to look 3D, but frontal views are the most natural looking. There's some problems in the perspective from high and low angles. Most of the pages are five panels that go from top to bottom. The illustrations have the look of oil paintings and some pages you can see something like the pattern of a canvas texture.
Technology: The pages are thick and glossy. Reading under a strong light might give you some problems with the augmented reality. Compared to 3D movies, the animation is crude, but it's the concept that fun. This is like an update of the extra-illustrated books of a bygone era. Augmented reality might be the future of books and "Shifter" would be worth having as a collector just as an example of early attempts at putting movies into books.
Both Ian and I liked the concept of the book and found the story entertaining enough. Anomaly Productions and Digital Art Tutorials will be a San Diego Comic-Con 2014 at booth #5556.
- Series: Shifter
- Hardcover: 200 pages
- Publisher: Anomaly Publishing; First Edition edition (October 8, 2013)
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
- List price: $19.99
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'Ghana has only one mathematician
Ghana currently has only one pure mathematician, who is about 58 years and may be retiring in the next two years.
In view of this, the National Centre for Mathematical Scientists has appealed to government for support to train more pure scientists to lecture in the country's universities.
The Chairman of the Board of the Centre, Professor Francis K. A. Allotey, who made the appeal, said it costs $30,000 to train one pure mathematician abroad to the doctorate degree level, but the same amount could be spent to turn out more than 10 mathematicians locally at the centre.
Prof. Allotey, who could not give details about the mathematician except that he is a lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), made the appeal at the opening of the sixth in the series of the Edward Bouchet and Abdus Salam College course on functional analysis and its applications to differential equations in Accra last Monday.
The 10-day course is being organised jointly by the centre and the Society for African Physicists and Mathematicians, with sponsorship from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy and the OPEC Fund for International Development.
It is being attended by 40 university lecturers from nine African countries including Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia.
Prof. Allotey, who is also the Chairman of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) said presently, the centre which was set up in 1995, is training 10 students to attain their doctorate degree in pure mathematics adding that within the next two years, they would be able to lecture in mathematics in the country's universities.
He expressed the hope that when the work of the centre is sustained, it would go a long way to help solve the problem of lack of mathematicians, in the country since mathematics is the basis of science and technology.
The University of Ghana, Legon, currently has four expatriate lecturers in mathematics, he added.
In his address, Professor Charles Chidume, from the ICTP said the sub-region has the requisite capacity to develop mathematics and physics for its development.
He said the centre in Ghana is no longer a national one for Ghana but a focal point for the development of the subject in the sub-region.
Prof. Chidume urged the students to work hard and emulate the good example of the eminent professors from the region, who have set the pace for the development of mathematics.
He appealed to politicians on the continent to spare some funds to train a core of mathematicians to provide the vision needed for the development of the continent.
Earlier in a welcoming address, Professor John H. Amuasi, Executive Secretary of GAEC, said the centre was set up mainly to foster interaction with policy-makers on matters relating to mathematics and its promotion and application.
He said it is also to provide continuing education in mathematics at the pre-tertiary and tertiary levels.
Prof. Amuasi said the centre has also started a masters and doctorate degree programmes in collaboration with the universities of Ghana and Cape Coast and the KNUST.
He commended the centre for steadily achieving its mission of providing research, training and education in mathematical sciences for the staff of the GAEC and young mathematicians, scientists and engineers in Africa.


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A laugh from our friends in the UK
This article was published in the UK about a very dangerous situation involving live ammunition.
"LIVE ammunition has been found lying in the doorway of a busy high street shop.
The .22 calibre short round bullet was found at the entrance of the 99p Stores in Walthamstow High Street on Wednesday morning, November 1.
Haroon Khan, who has a firearms licence and is a member of a local gun club, was alarmed to discover live ammunition in a Walthamstow doorway.
The bullet, of Swiss origin, was still in its brass casing, complete with enough gunpowder for it to fire itself.
Mr Khan said that if it had been struck hard enough or exposed to heat it could have gone off.
"This sort of thing should not be lying around. It was live, primed and active," he said. "But rather me pick it up than a little kid.
"How can you feel safe when you are finding things like this on the street?
"To get hold of one of these is not easy. You have to go through a scrutinised search, you need a licence and you have to belong to a club."
Ammunition of this kind would ordinarily be used in a small handgun or pistol, and both can be owned legally under licence.
But to leave strictly controlled goods out in the street would be enough for a firearms licence to be revoked.
The bullet has been examined at a Metropolitan Police laboratory and details about it kept for future reference.
A police spokesman said: "Recovering firearms and ammunition is a priority for the police. We take the same view of ammunition as we do of a gun.
"If it goes bang, it is still lethal."
Police are treating the unattended ammunition as a crime. Mr Khan alerted them at 10.16am, and they arrived at his shop to pick up the bullet at 11.32am."
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Incredible opportunities
October 27, 2013
Nick Monson, Grand Forks A recent article put North Dakota as the number one state of opportunity for youth and went as far to mark the state as having the largest proportion of 20- to 24-year-olds....
Your effort and optimism gives me hope for our country.
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When you hear, not here.
Anyhow, it is great to have the opportunities that everybody wants, but I suspect when it all goes wrong now and then, somebody else will have to do the heavy work and those with the incredible opportunities will all say 'it wasn't me'.
The letter is pollyannish.
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When you here of salt water spills and oil spills, you know full well they are not doing their jobs.
There will be incredible opportunities to clean up the mess after it is all over, but I doubt anybody is going to want that job.
Might as well drill and pump and ship and burn all of the oil and get it over with.
There are consequences to this mad max rate of development and they won't be pretty.
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conversely, low wage, non-oil workers can't afford our high cost of living and our service work businesses struggle to get employees. it is a great opportunity for the rest of us to pay an extra $2,000 to live here. a NO vote will threaten state republican office holders and may force their hand to spend some of their billions on us.
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sorry. the I35 bridge in minneapolis. just one of many examples.
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sorry. the I35 bridge in minneapolis. just one of many examples.
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in any area where there is an industry; it is not the compamy profit that boosts the economy. it is the wages of the workers and the taxes they pay that spurs the private and public economies. the Gov. maintains our infrastructure. we are overdue for may bridge, highwa, etc repairs. a recession is the perfect time to catch up on that work because it will boost the e3conomy and save money in the long run. replacing some rather small pillar supports could have saved the bridge. letting it go to collapse required 100% demo and rebuild.
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it is the new workers and their spending that would bring in tax money; not us. it is an economic theory proven true many times. back to article: and for those of us not in oil we have the opportunity to pay rediculously high taxes, live in overcrowded conditions and see our beautiful western landscape defaced and polluted--what an opportunity.
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Oh, whistler, a government job's bill mandating that everyone between the age 16 and 73 work 40 hour weeks is indeed the answer.
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a jobs bill would do more of the same for the entire country and fix our dangerous and crumbling infrastructure., it could pay for itself thru income tax, sales tax, more efficiency and a spurred economy.
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Holiday Take Out
It's ironic that cinema and Christmas both begin with the letter C because as any parent knows, there is a huge amount of creativity and planning to pull off the magic of the season, much like making a movie.
Of course, wide-eyed excitement makes every late night, pine needle and slippery-road shopping trip worth the effort. But keep this in mind: Hollywood directors don't do it all and neither should you. After all, a burnt-out hostess isn't any fun and it's your Christmas too. You'll want to enjoy the turkey and crisp Sauv Blanc on the big day.
So give yourself a break and consider take-out for the biggest supper of the year. Surprisingly, there are several restaurants and meal preparation companies that sell traditional holiday fare. It might not taste exactly like the dinners of yore but who knows, it may even taste better.
Meez (formerly Mise en Place) is experienced in the 'cook it today, reheat it tomorrow' model and their à la carte dinner menu is gourmet and delicious. Go for the full-meal turkey deal, including a free run, organic Winter's turkey; then, add a second veggie side, change your main to beef or include an additional sauce from there. You can also get appetizers ready-made for your holiday parties. Or cook the bird yourself (the easy part) and buy the fussy side dishes. The beauty of Meez is that you can choose.
All dishes come with detailed reheating instructions (your guests will never know their dinner was prepared in advance). Servings are large so don't order extra unless you want leftovers. With three locations in the south for pick up, you'll need to order your holiday meals well in advance.
On the slightly higher end, River Café also caters holiday dinners. In this case the turkey comes uncooked (but prepared and brined) in a roasting pan for your home oven.
What you do with the extra time not slaving over a hot stove is up to you.
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