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ESPN analyst Urban Meyer has been in the rumor mill the past few weeks with him going back into college football, coaching the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Meyer, who led the Florida Gators to two national titles, denied interviewing or receiving an offer from Ohio State, but he told the Gainsville Sun that he would have "a decision to make" if the Buckeyes make him an offer.
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Skip to comments.Is India Going the Way of 1930s Germany?
Posted on 04/09/2002 1:27:00 PM PDT by TBP
The recent rounds of violence between religious groups in India do more than reveal the fragility of India's secular state. They highlight the inability of Indian democracy to combat what is essentially a fascist onslaught.
At first glance what happened in India appears to be another--if extreme--case of religious passion gone awry. A train carrying Hindu activists to the disputed religious site of Ayodhya was firebombed by a mob, killing 58 of the activists. Several days of revenge attacks by Hindus against Muslims followed in the state of Gujarat, killing over 700.
However, India's Hindu Nationalists have always resembled 1930s European fascists more than they do contemporary "fundamentalists." Members of the core organization of Hindu nationalism, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), founded in the 1920s, are given paramilitary instruction, not religious, and wear khaki uniforms reminiscent of Mussolini's brownshirts. While the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), founded in the 1960s, is mainly concerned with religion, it still does not prescribe how Hindus should worship or behave--an impossible task given the diversity of Hindu religious practice.
Instead, like all Hindu nationalists, it is bent on characterizing Muslims as alien and hostile while seeking to unify Hindus around a romantic nationalism, in which military prowess plays a central role. Hindu nationalists' emphasis on international prestige has won them the support of the westernized middle class, typically the target of Islamic fundamentalism. Their focus on demonizing Muslims rather than promoting Hinduism is illustrated even by the dispute over Ayodhya, where extremist Hindu groups destroyed a 16th century Muslim mosque in 1992, sparking nationwide sectarian riots in which more than 2,000 people died.
Hindu nationalists claim that a temple on the same site honoring the birthplace of the Hindu deity, Rama, was torn down to make way for the mosque. For Hindu extremist groups the claim that a temple was torn down to build a mosque--for which there is no concrete evidence--was at least as important as the claim that Rama was born at the site. The destruction of the mosque was commonly spoken of in terms of retaking territory that had been lost to invaders. Hindu nationalists have identified other mosques they wish to destroy, claiming that these too were built on temple sites. For none do they claim the sanctity associated with the birthplace of Rama. Indeed, the purpose of claiming a particular site as Rama's birthplace--for which there is no basis in theology or tradition--was to justify tearing down the existing mosque.
It is this fascist ideology, and the fact that a party espousing it is at the head of the national government, that makes the recent anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat so much more disturbing than earlier rounds of riots. As horrific as the recent violence was, more died in 1992. But the political establishment's response this time has been ambivalent and feeble. The paralysis in the political system is emboldening the Hindu extremist organizations responsible for the Gujarat "riots" to press their agenda more forcefully. There are times when India seems to resemble Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s.
The analogy to the rise of Hitler is not one that should be made lightly, but there are many parallels. The Gujarat attacks were not spontaneous expressions of mob rage but were highly organized and brutally efficient, probably identifying Muslim homes and businesses through the use of public records. The state government was almost certainly complicit in the wave of violence that affected the entire state and saw no effort by the police to control it. The central government was slow to dispatch the army, and has attempted to put the focus on the train attack, for which they blame Pakistani intelligence.
The state government initially sought to limit judicial inquiry to investigating the train attack, to use its emergency powers only against those accused of the train attack, and to offer higher levels of compensation to the (Hindu) victims of the train attack on the grounds that they were victims of terrorism. Even many liberal intellectuals and politicians, whose protests forced the state government to retract some of these measures, have tacitly accepted the idea that several days of targeted anti-Muslim violence can be equated with the attack on the train, and even resulted from it.
Worse, there has been no effort by those in power to hold those responsible for the Gujarat attacks accountable. The national government, run by the same party as the state government, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has chosen not to use its constitutional authority to take over the state's administration despite having attempted last year to do so on law and order grounds in another, opposition-ruled state. Although the government has banned militant Islamic groups, it has ignored calls by parties both in the opposition and in its own coalition to do this to Hindu extremist organizations. The involvement of these organizations in the Gujarat violence is widely attested to, and they were banned after they tore down the Ayodhya mosque in 1992.
Worse still, even after the Gujarat riots the government negotiated with the VHP over its plans to begin construction of a temple on the disputed site. The compromise involved an official in the Prime Minister's Office accepting possession of two pillars intended for inclusion in the temple structure. Even though this seriously compromised the Indian state's claims to religious neutrality, the government has congratulated itself for defusing a potentially explosive situation.
To be sure, the government is in a tight spot. BJP members of parliament have expressed outrage at the government's refusal to let temple construction proceed until the Supreme Court rules on the subject. However, statements and actions by Hindu extremist organizations since suggest that they have been emboldened by the concessions the government has made. Over the weekend of March 15 members of several right-wing Hindu organizations stormed and sacked the legislative assembly of the state of Orissa for unknown reasons, while the RSS warned Indian Muslims that their safety depended on the goodwill of the Hindu majority. The next week the VHP indicated that it had plans to carry the ashes of the train attack victims in processions throughout the country--an act calculated to incite mob fury. It later disavowed its plans when many of the BJP's coalition allies threatened to pull out of the coalition if the plans were carried through.
The opposition parties and some of the BJP's coalition allies have succeeded in checking the VHP to some degree. They have called for Hindu extremist organizations to be banned, and condemned the compromise with the VHP over the performance of the temple ceremony, as well as the attack on the Orissa assembly and the RSS' statement on Muslims. In addition to blocking the alleged plans to carry the ashes of Hindus killed in the train attack in a procession many have threatened to withdraw their support if the Ayodhya temple is built. The BJP leadership has promised to abide by the Supreme Court's ruling on the temple site. However, the VHP can undertake many provocative acts short of actually constructing the temple and has announced plans for more religious ceremonies centering on the temple issue around the country. There is a limit to how many battles the allies can fight and win from within the government.
The BJP's allies have been reluctant to withdraw from the government and indeed, voted with the government in passing a Prevention of Terrorism Bill that will significantly weaken protections for civil liberties including allowing confessions extorted from prisoners by police to be admitted as evidence. The Act, the provisions of which are currently in operation as an executive order, was defeated in the upper house of parliament where the opposition parties are in a majority, but it then passed in an unusual joint session of parliament. During the acrimonious debate two former prime ministers charged that the existing ordinance was used selectively against Muslims in Guajarat, while the current Leader of the Opposition, Sonia Gandhi, argued that the law would be used by the national government to intimidate its opponents and divide the country.
Short-term political calculations keep the government in power. Most of the BJP's allies are regional parties. The opposition Congress Party, which has won a string of recent elections is their local rival. Similar divisions between the Congress and other opposition parties have also hindered efforts to form an alternate coalition. Indeed, some opposition parties are gravitating toward the government out of tactical considerations even as some of its allies pull away from it. Meanwhile the two communist parties, outwardly the most opposed to the BJP, have announced that they would refuse to support a Congress government because of differences with that party's economic policy.
This combination of organized thugs affiliated with the ruling party who terrorize a minority community and intimidate a silent majority, with a divided opposition in which the center is getting squeezed from both sides, is only the most obvious parallel to Germany in the early 1930s. Over the past few years, the BJP has tried to reshape the secondary school curriculum by stealth in ways that fit with Hindu nationalist ideology and has presided over the slow militarization of the polity. By casting the Pakistan-supported insurgency in Kashmir as a crisis of national security, military expenditures have been increased while social welfare expenses have been cut. The command structure of the armed forces, which were kept divided for decades to ensure civilian control, has been unified in recent years. With the passage of the Prevention of Terrorism Bill, the government will have most of the tools it requires to gradually reduce the space for dissent.
There are many factors that could prevent this from happening. The Supreme Court has blocked both the VHP's plans for Ayodhya and the release of new textbooks following the social studies curricula. The National Human Rights Commission, which in India has some judicial powers, has rejected the Gujarat government's initial report on the riots as "perfunctory" and demanded a more thorough accounting. With the opposition parties controlling the presidency, upper house of parliament, most state governments, and therefore the electoral college for electing the next president this summer, it would be difficult for the BJP to significantly alter the constitutional balance or to declare a state of national emergency. Moreover, the government has a stake in preserving India's credentials as a secular state, in order to maintain U.S. pressure on neighboring Pakistan to crack down on militant Islamic groups and in order to develop economic ties with Islamic countries like Iran. Continued provocations by Hindu extremist organizations could yet force a rift between the BJP and its allies or even within the BJP, which is divided over the temple issue.
However, the difficulty India's mainstream parties have had in maintaining a united opposition to the BJP's agenda, and the change in the international attitude toward civil liberties following September 11, make it difficult to feel confident that Hindu fascism will be defeated. For this to happen, both centrist parties in the ruling coalition, and India's friends abroad will need to recognize that what happened in Gujarat was not just another instance of religious communities in conflict. Rather, as Indian opposition leaders have charged, it was part of a broader tendency toward eliminating civil liberties and scapegoating cultural minorities in an aggressive effort to impose a unified sense of nationhood on one of the world's most culturally diverse societies.
Excellent point, I'm sure lost on the auhor.
The analysis at the host site, Foreign Policy in Focus, seems consistently leftist.
But these views are held by a small minority. Once it attained power the PJP has by and large acted responsibly and today is blocking the "rebuilding" of a Hindu temple at Ayodyha. Indeed, BJP's days in power seem numbered - they've recently lost a series of state and municipal elections.
The link between extreme Hindu nationalists and fascism goes back to before WWII, when many believed Japan or Germany might deliver independence to India. The violence between Hindus and Muslims was far worse during independence and partition.
My gut feeling is that the author is taking a kernel of truth and mixing it with some old news to tar BJP with the "nazi" label. Probably a Congress supporter.
This was standard operating procedure for Muslims for centuries. Destroying other religions holy sites and building mosques on them, at which point they become "Islamic Holy Sites". Just like the Temple Mount in Jeuruselem.
But it's not just that incident. Some of you Indian apologists can't see beyond the small incidents that the Indian government wants you to see.
The Indian government has practiced oppression against Chrsitians, Sikhs, Muslims, Dalits, Bodos, and other minorities. According to the January 2 Washington Times, they are sponsoring terrorism in the Pakistani province of Sindh. According to India Today, tehy created teh Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
The Indian government admitted to holding 52,268 Sikh political prisoners, according to a report by the Movement Against State Repression (MASR.) Some of these have been in illegal detention since 1984! India has murdered over 200,000 Christians in Nagaland, over 250,000 Sikhs since 1984, over 75,000 Kashmiri Muslims since 1988, and tens of thousands of other minorities. According to teh Hitavada newspaper, it paid the late governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, to foment terrorist activity in Punjab and Kashmir. About 50,000 Sikhs have been made to "disappear." Minorities of all kinds are killed in police custody.
Chrsitians are being singled out. Priests have been murdered, nuns have been raped, churches have been burned, missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons were murdered by these Hindu militants and all India does is throw his widow out of the country. A Chrsitian religious festival was broken up by police gunfire.
Does this sound like a secular democracy to you, or does it sound like Nazi Germany? Rep. Dana Rohrabacher knows. On August 2, 1999, on the floor of the House, he said that for the minorities, "India might as well be Nazi Germany."
This writer thinks it is, and I agree with him. As Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
Thats 3 against...?
According to India Today, tehy created teh Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Would that be the LTTE that killed the Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi?
Unfortunately, not so. BJP has led the carnage against minorities, which has continuesd since it came to power.
BJP is under the umbrella of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), a pro-Fascist organization. It is RSS's political arm. RSS recently published a booklet on how to implicate Chrsitians (and other religious minorities) in false criminal cases. It endorsed the killing of priests, the rape of nuns, and the murder of missionary Graham Staines and his 8- and 10-year-old sons.
In New York in 2000, Prime Minister Vajpayee told an audience "I will always be a Swayamsewak."
The comparison of Pakistan to Nazi Germany is more apt. Pakistan, like Nazi Germany, is fomenting terrorist unrest in the Punjab and in Jammu and Kashmir, just like the Nazis did in the Sudetenland and the Danzig corridor. By contrast, although India could easily have swallowed up the former East Pakistan after the 1971 war of liberation, she didn't, and that state became the independent Bangla Desh.
Here's another: the "Hagia Sophia Church" in Constantinople, the finest architectural masterpiece of its historical era. At least the Turks didn't tear it down...
I stand by my view, however, that BJP has moderated its more extreme views since going into government, to my surprise.
I do believe that BJP's time in power is coming to a close. It would be interesting to see what Congress would do in a new government - would they continue the trend to economic liberalization or would they revert to Nehru-style socialism?
Most revered mosque in India . . . third most holy site in Islam . . . yawn. Are these rankings listed somewhere because everytime something happens it happens someplace more holy or more revered than the last?
I'm waiting for Dearborn, MI to be given an Islamic name and declared holy ground.
The Kashmiri freedom movement claims to be self-generated, and the evidence I have seen says it is. So are the 16 other freedom movements within India's artificial borders.
India is so big and so diverse with so many passions in so many directions that nobody could unite it and drive it in a concerted direction as Hitler did Germany.
I also agree it is unlikely India would adopt fascism. India is large and diverse, with many languages and ethnicities. There is still widespread resentment over Mrs. Gandhi's brief dictatorship in the '70's.
TBP, There is a history of Islam building Mosques over the sites of other religions hallowed buildings since at least the "Temple Mount", Constantinople, and quite a few churches in Europe before the "crusades". Islam allows NO other religion equal treatment under the "law". ALL are subordinate or non-existant. Peace and love, George.
Hey, I'm a Presbyterian. For me, the Holy Land is Scotland.
I could understand Pontiac Michigan being declared Holy:
Um, what evidence is there China is developing its economy quickly? Chinese government statistics? Why would you trust those any more than Enron profit stateements?
India has murdered over 200,000 Christians in Nagaland
The population of Nagaland as per the latest census (2001) is 1.988 million. Yes, just 1.988 million. The population of Nagaland since the last census in 1991 has registered a more than robust 64.41% growth (up from 1.209 million).
May I say the census results do not support your statement of 200,000 dead Naga Christians as it would imply the Nagas are gifted with a fecundity that would create an inferiority complex in rabbits.
And you don't even address the Sikhs, Muslims, and other minorities that have been murdered by the governmetn also.
Which "well known" human rights group ?
Instead, perchance this reference is from the Council of Khalistan (COK), more specifically Dr. Gurmeet Singh Aulakh's congratulatory message to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland(Isaac-Muviah Faction) for the publication of their book "50 years of Resistance" in 1998 which provides a figure of 200,000 Naga's killed.
I consider the COK being far from knowlegebale on Naga issues given that Punjab and Nagaland are not geographically contiguous and for that matter are about as far apart as one can be in India (Punjab is on the western end of India and Nagaland on the eastern end).
Interestingly, the same COK in 1993 stated that 100,000 Nagas had been killed.
Thus according to the COK between 1993 and 1998, 100,000 additional Nagas were claimed to killed.
I once again reiterate that the census data I have provided in my post # 40 does not appear to support the figures quoted by you.
India is a democracy period. That however does not bestow the right to armed seperatists to indulge in terrorism without the fear of supression.If in the process some of these terrorists die, so be it. If you choose to call that murder, Indian democracy gives you that prerogative. In this we are no different from other democracies faced with these issues eg: USA (civil war ), UK (N.Ireland), Phillippines ( Mindanao ),Spain ( Basque region )and yes Sri Lanka too (Jaffna).
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However, there are many who say otherwise.
Listen to Narinder Singh, a spokesman for the Golden Temple:
"The Indian government, all the time they boast that they're democratic, they're secular, but they have nothing to do with a democracy, they have nothing to do with a secularism. They try to crush Sikhs just to please the majority." Narinder Singh, a spokesman for the Golden Temple, Amritsar, Punjab, interviewed on National Public Radio, July 11, 1997.
Or this:
"When it comes to Kashmir and Punjab and Jammu, the Indian Government might as well not be a democracy. For people in those areas, India might as well be Nazi Germany." -- U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Cal.), August 2, 1999.
Or this:
"The mere fact that [Sikhs] have the right to choose their oppressors does not mean they live in a democracy." Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY) (How's htat for bipartisanship?)
General Narinder Singh (a different guy from theone quoted before), a retired Indina general, says "Punjab is a police state." Then there is Balram Jakhar, the former Speaker of the Indian Parliament: "If we have to kill a million Sikhs to keep India's territorial integrity, so be it." So far, they're only 25 percent of the way there.
Sounds really democratic to me.
The question is how many? People who share your views are in a minority. Thats is a fact you will have to live with.
but the facts are the facts.
And multicultural states don't survive, as Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union (India's old ally) and Austria-Hungary should have taught us by now.
India is not a constitutional republic. There are 17 freedom movements within India's borders, in part because Christians, Sikhs, Bodos, Assamese, Manipuris, and other minorities do not enjoy full Constitutional protection. (In words, yes. In actions, no.)
Look at Gujarat. The fact is that while the carnage was going on, the police stood aside and did nothing to stop it. The same thing happened in 1984 to the Sikhs in Delhi. Police officials kill minorities and all that ever happens to them is that they get transferred. Not one of your India sycophhants has been able to show one case where teh police were punished. The government of Punjab ordered a report on the murder of Akal Takht Jathedar Gurdev Singh Kaunke, and when it implicated the police, specifically SSP Swaran Singh Ghotna, they refused to release it.
In 1994, our own State Department (in a pro-India Administration) reported that the Indian government paid out over 41,000 cash bounties to police officers for killing Sikhs. One officer got a bounty for killing a three-year-old boy, whom he claimed was a terrorist. Last year, the government's troops were caught red-handed trying to set fire to some Sikh homes and a Gurdwara in Kashmir. The Hinu supremacist militants who burned missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons to death have not been punished. Neither have the people responsible for murdering priests, raping nuns, burning churches, and other acts of violence against Christians. Instead, the RSS, which is the parent organization of the ruling BJP, published a booklet on how to implicate Christians and other minorities in false criminal cases. In 1997, a Christian religious festival was broken up by police gunfire. In November 1994, the Indina newspaper Hitavada reported that the Indian government paid the late governor of Punjab, Surendra Nath, $1.5 billion to foment terrorist activity in Punjab and Kashmir. There are so many of these attacks and atrocities that one begins to lose track of them.
The head of teh RSS just recently said that all Indians must be Hindus. This reflects a statement by a cabinet member that everyone who lives in India must be Hinu or be subservient to Hinduism. And Prime Minister Vajpayee told an audience in New York in 2000, "I will always be a Swayamsewak."
Second, Pakistan is a hotbed of violent Islamic terrorists who hate America, Israel, and India, and Musharraf, the lone ranger, is trying to turn his entire country around, but that's not easy.
No, and Musharraf is doing an excellent job. There is much militant Islamism in Pakistan, true, and it's every bit as bad as the militant Hindutva supremacism that grips India. As you said, Musharraf is trying to turn it around. India did not help the situation by taking advantage of the situation to mass troops on the Kashmir border, forcing Musharraf to divert some of the troops he had been using to track down the Islamist terrorists.
Further, according to the January 2 Washington Times, India sponsors and supports cross-border terrorism in the Pakistani province of Sindh. Will you condemn this? I don't think so. Further, journalist Tavleen Singh, writing in India's leading newsmagazine, India Today, reported that India created the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which teh U.S. government has labelled a "terrorist organization." India has not been our friend. It was a Soviet ally. It votes against us at the UN more often than any country except Cuba. According to the May 18, 1999 issue of The Indian Express, Defense Minister George Fernandes met with the Ambassadors from Red China, Communist Cuba, Russia, (Milosevic's) "Yugolsavia" (i.e. Serbia), Libya, and Iraq to discuss setting up a security arrangement "to stop the U.S."
Third, Communist China actively encourages and financially supports any anti-American force or ideology it can lay its grubby hands on, because one of its main interests is the destruction of capitalism, i.e. America, India, Israel, and Europe.
True. And as the Indian Express article shows, India is doing nothing to stop them. In fact, it seems that whenever secular, democratic, constitutional India has to choose between supporting America or supporting Red China, it supports the Chinese position.
Try and digest those basic and elemental truisms, and then filter your monotonous gossip and lies to finally arrive at the truth.
I would make the same suggestion to you.
LOL. How nice of you, but totally dishonest, as usual. India has no terrorists' operating in Pakistan blowing up people, parliaments, and killing innocents. Now check again to see which way your head is screwed on, or even if it is.
Everything you post has been debunked before. Why did you flag me to this leftist "progressive" professor's little ramblings? SOURCE, TBP, is everything to most thinking people, but that's something you'll never be accused of. Thinking people would post utter bullshit from the FPIF with a "barf alert", or not post it at all. (I must admit it's somewhat intriguing though, to see you've dropped the crap from COK and picked up with the progressive socialists.)
I will post this again, since you don't seem to have gotten it before.
On January 2, in the Washington Times (a far left newspaper, right, keri?) it was reported that India is sponsoring cross-border terrorism in Sindh. Sindh is a province of Pakistan. But I should believe that "India has no terrorists' operating in Pakistan" because you say so rather than believe the Washington Times. Obviously.
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Major Drilling Group International Inc. (MDI) F1Q09 Earnings Call September 9, 2008 6:00 AM ET
Francis McGuire - President, Chief Executive Officer
Denis Larocque - Chief Financial Officer
Jacques Wortman - GMP Securities
David Talbot - Dundee Securities
Michael Mills - Beacon Securities
Barry Allan - Research Capital
Welcome to the Major Drilling Group International first quarter results conference call. (Operator Instructions) I will now turn the conference over to Francis McGuire, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Francis McGuire
With me is Denis Larocque, our Chief Financial Officer. You should have all received a copy of our results which were released earlier this morning. If not please contact Chantal Melanson at her officer or visit our website at www.majordrilling.com.
Before we get started, I would like to caution you as usual that during the course of this conference call we will make forward-looking statements regarding future events or future financial performance of the company. Such statements are forward-looking in nature and actual events or results made differ materially. We disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Denis will provide you with a more detailed review of our financial results, before I come back and talk about the outlook and our new dividend policy, but briefly the company continues to show good progress in delivering strong top and bottom line performance. We posted the highest quarterly revenues in our history with revenues of $178.2 million up 24.3% from the $143.4 million recorded the same quarter last year.
Gross margin percentage for the quarter was 35.5% up from 33.2% for the corresponding period last year. The company posted the highest quarterly earnings in its history with earnings from continuing operations for the quarter increasing by over 40% to $26.3 million or at $1.11 per share.
Overall margins showed very good improvement year-over-year despite continuing pressure on labor costs and African margins lagging behind other regions. Investments in training crucial to our continuing growth, continued to weigh on our margin growth as well. Availability of crews, especially in Canada, U.S. and Australia remains our number one challenge.
With that I will come back and discuss the outlook after Denis provides the little bit more details on the quarter.
Denis Larocque
As Francis noted total revenue for the quarter was a $178.2 million, up $34.8 million from the same quarter last year. Looking at the revenues by region, revenue from Canada, U.S. drilling operation was up 12.8% to $55.6 million for the quarter as compared to the same period last year.
Additional equipment and improved pricing contributed to this growth in that region. In South and Central America, revenue for the quarter was $55.3 million up 30.1% from the prior year quarter. Revenue growth was driven primarily by strong demand in Mexico and Chile including the Harris acquisition, partially offset by revenue reduction in Venezuela and Ecuador, which were impacted by political decisions.
Australian, Asian and African drilling operations reported revenue of $67.3 million, up some 30.4% from the same period last year. Australia, Mongolia and Africa accounted for most of the growth in this region.
In terms of rig count, we took delivery of 26 new rigs this quarter, 18 of which were specialized, but we also retired 13 conventional or underground rigs from our fleet that had limited contribution in the last year. The total rig count now stands at 547 and breaks down as follows; specialized 186 with 84% utilization, conventional 281 with 60% utilization and underground 80 with 60% utilization, for a total of again 547 rigs with 68% utilization.
We had three main factors that affected our utilization this quarter versus our fourth quarter; Ecuador and Venezuela political situation, the African operation and seasonality in Chile, Argentina. In total, we had 39 rigs that worked in Q4 that didn't in Q1. Of those 39, 12 were in Ecuador or Venezuela where activity was shutdown this quarter due to political decisions. Most of our rigs in those regions had worked for the majority of the fourth quarter.
In Africa we parked 12 rigs in this quarter that were not being used effectively. Our approach there is to maximize retain per rig working instead of maximizing utilization. We want to maximize utilization of crews and our infrastructure and we will build up utilization of rigs as the situation improves.
Finally we had 12 rigs idle as we moved into winter season in Chile, Argentina. We have the usual seasonal pullback as we transition from our altitude jobs to more conventional jobs while we wait for the next summer season.
The overall gross margin percentage for the quarter was 35.5%, up from 33.2% from the same period last year. Gross margin percentages improved year-over-year in all regions due to generally improved pricing, better equipment and improved overall productivity. In Africa, margins were still impacted by operational issues, but improved from the fourth quarter of 2008. The company has made several management and operational changes in the region and expects results to improve in the coming quarters.
G&A were $13.4 million for the quarter, compared to $10 million for the prior year period. The increase is primarily due to increased staffing levels and infrastructure costs to accommodate growth, but the company added significant resources in safety and training, particularly in the second half of last year. In addition, the company started a new R&D program with the goal of finding new ways to enhance productivity and safety.
Other expenses for the quarter increased $3.8 million, up from $3.5 million in the prior year quarter, due primarily to higher incentive compensation expenses given the company's improved profitability in the current year and write-off of disposed assets.
Earnings from continuing operation for the quarter were $26.3 million or $1.11 per share compared to $18.8 million or $0.80 per share in the prior year period. With that quick overview, I'll turn the presentation back to Francis to discuss the outlook.
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The fundamental long-term drivers of our business remain unchanged. Worldwide supply of most metals is expected to tighten in the medium to long-term due to the lack of significant discoveries. Continued growth throughout Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa and the reconstruction efforts after the earthquakes in China which is expected to cross $147 billion, should continue to drive demand. It takes many years to bring new capacity into production and a great deal of drilling is required to do so.
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Despite some potential short-term volatility, the company continues to invest in its capital expenditures. This quarter we spent $19 million to ensure continued growth. Through these investments we've added 26 rigs during the quarter. We maintain our capital expenditure plans, which should increase our fleet by a net 60 drills this year. During the quarter, we retired 13 inefficient rigs that had extremely low utilization factors over the last several years.
As announced on August 1, 2008, we are pleased to welcome Forage Benoit and its employees to the Major Drilling group. This acquisition provides us with additional assets, experienced drillers and existing contracts in Québec. Through this purchase, we acquired 19 rigs, the majority of which have deep hole capacity and are fitted out with rod handlers which fits our strategic focus on specialized drilling.
We anticipate that the Benoit operations will produce additional annual revenues of approximately $26 million. The company continues to seek acquisitions of this nature, which will either complement our specialized drilling strategy or expand our geographic footprint. We are confident in the long-term outlook for drilling, especially specialized drilling and confident of the company's ability to generate strong future cash flows.
Cash flows from continuing operations before changes in working capital in the quarter continued to strengthen, increasing by 39% to $36.5 million compared to $26.2 million recorded in the prior year quarter. We expect future cash flows to be more than sufficient to sustain our growth plans including both our internal CapEx plans and our acquisition prospects and therefore we believe that it is appropriate to institute a semi-annual dividend. The first dividend of $0.20 per common share will be paid on October 31, 2008 to shareholders of record as of October 10, 2008 and is designated as an eligible dividend for Canadian tax purposes.
That concludes our formal remarks and we will be very pleased to take questions.
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(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Jacques Wortman - GMP Securities.
Jacques Wortman – GMP Securities
Very good strong quarter there; I just wanted to ask Denis, if you could just give us a real quick sort of snapshot. If you exclude the pricing impact, could you provide just a quick review of the incremental increases in revenue in fiscal '09 from fiscal '08 with any revised guidance on revenue contribution from the new rigs and from Benoit? Can you just give us a quick summary there?
Denis Larocque
As you know we don't provide quantitative guidance, so I'm not going to go into that, but were you are looking…
Jacques Wortman – GMP Securities
More sort of like this kind of revenue contribution on a per rig basis. You don have to get into finite numbers, but just sort of generalizations; this much revenue on that new rigs that are added and you've already given guidance on what Benoit's supposed to do. We can do the math ourselves, but just a quick summary of that?
Francis McGuire
I think Jacq we maintain that and incremental rigs should be able to deliver about $1.2 million a year on average, that depends on the rigs of course, but that's a good average to use, you won't be very far along there.
Again I think that we said last year that our pricing minus productivity has delivered something in the order of 10% growth. We believe that's the kind of things we'll see, but there'll be added emphasis as we go forward on our productivity gains. If you remember on that we were really loosing quite a bit of productivity, but a good bulk of our crews that we've been training are really into their second year of formation and we are now starting to see some of our productivity pick up. So, we'll see as we go forward more contribution from productivity than from price, but those two are combined together.
Jacques Wortman – GMP Securities
Combined together to give you 10%?
Francis McGuire
Yes, that's the kind of order that we've spoken about and we don't see any change in that.
Your next question comes from David Talbot - Dundee Securities.
David Talbot - Dundee Securities
Yes, just in case I hadn't mentioned before, congratulations on the Benoit purchase. I've used them before and quite frankly was quite happy with them. So, just a question on you're repositioning of the drill fleet. I guess you've mentioned Ecuador and Venezuela; do you have any plans to move rigs out of these areas and if so, what sort of timing do you foresee here?
Francis McGuire
Yes, we do have plans. We are in the final stages of finalizing contracts and so we would expect that over the Christmas period we'll be repositioning drills, so we should be in a position after Christmas to take advantage of that.
David Talbot - Dundee Securities
Okay, why such a long down time period for that…
Francis McGuire
Part of it is stock orders. Some of it, yes it also has to do with actually finalizing contracts with the customers. Customers do indicate that they want drills and programs and then by time they actually sit-down, negotiate it, agree to terms and some of them just have start dates that happen to be after the rainy season or after the winter season and so really you go through that dead Christmas period and I think most people say, well let's not try to start it up before Christmas, just for three-four weeks, its not very efficient. So, you're going to get that kind of, bit of a lag. Some of this travel is indeed cross-bordered too, so as we talk about the repositioning, several of these drills will be traveling thousands of kilometers.
Denis Larocque
And every time we put a rig on, we find that it takes double the time that we thought it would just because of all the logistics and everything and so on.
David Talbot - Dundee Securities
Yes, it always does. Okay as far as the junior starting to cut back as the running out of cash, have you seen this actually impacting your overall demand at this point; are you able to quickly find other clients or other customers to pickup the slack here and those new customers, are you able to sort of instill that 10% growth and contract price through them?
Francis McGuire
Yes, we are able to replace all those. The issue is that it's not always in the same location and so we do have to look at some moving things along. We're finding pricing again is still a good situation, maybe not as strong certainly as last year, but then again our base prices have really come up quite a bit and we're quite happy with.
Certainly, we don't have all the lagging contracts if I can put it that way. We've pretty much come up to an industry standard, so again a lot of our gains will be made -- there will be a much more emphasis on productivity than on actual price increases, but we do find that as far as we can justify the price increases in terms of the cost that we have to bear, particularly the increased cost of labor that our customers are quite understanding.
David Talbot - Dundee Securities
Okay. Your CapEx program is this slowing down a little bit or are we talking 60 rigs over this fiscal year, which is three quarters or is that over the next 12 months?
Francis McGuire
It continues to be in our fiscal year April-to-April, that was our original announcement and we have not changed that, so it's a reconfirmation of our plans.
Denis Larocque
Yes, that's 60 net rigs by the way. When we say that in other words it's net of replacements and so we've said in the past we were looking at buying 80 rigs and having 20 replacements. Now we might retire more rigs that are not being utilized, that are not up to par, but certainly we're on track to buy those 80 rigs.
Francis McGuire
For instance some of our older rigs that maybe in one location, we just don't believe that's worth moving them; we'll leave them there and would like to have the new rigs. So, the new rigs are clearly more productive.
David Talbot - Dundee Securities
Just one final question; I guess it's sort of a clarification on your dividend. It looks like the first payment is $0.20, so does that make your annual dividend payment $0.40?
Denis Larocque
That's correct.
Your next question comes from Michael Mills - Beacon Securities.
Michael Mills - Beacon Securities
I just want to clarify in terms of when you're talking about potential adjustments to operations over the coming months, is this primarily repositioning of rig assets?
Francis McGuire
Exactly and moving between some regions, we see some regions with very strong demand that we haven't been able to meet and then particularly in areas where there are juniors, we have seen a lot of -- not a lot, but a number of programs go down from two drill down to one as they stretch things out. That freezes up in areas where there are a lot of junior activity, freezes up some rigs that we then are intending to move to areas where essentially the bigger customers have had demand, so we haven't been able to respond to and that will be able to as we go forward.
Michael Mills - Beacon Securities
So, there's still strong demand overall; you're just going to be repositioning rigs and there is going to be some downtime as you demobilize the rigs?
Francis McGuire
Yes, there is some repositioning in the market, that's clear. We're really seeing a very strong new and increased demand from the uranium producers. The gold producers tend to be strong as well continuing; copper is strong as well, but we are clearly seeing the zinc projects declining, so that changes some of the market we are seeing.
Nickel, to a lesser extent, but we are seeing a little bit of less activity there throughout, so all those changes means that we are in a bit of transition period. The demand though coming from gold and copper, but particularly uranium is absolutely picking up what we seen in the decline of zinc, so there is a great deal of movement in the market, but overall demand pattern stay very strong.
Michael Mills - Beacon Securities
Okay and just in terms of the dividend, I'm wondering, how the board came about the $0.20 semi-annual amount. Is that based on any kind of longer-term, sustainable payout ratio or what we are looking at there?
Francis McGuire
Yes, this is the beginning of a policy. We want to make sure that in any situation and we are talking now that we are committed to it for the next 20 years that no matter what happens we will be able to sustain it and indeed I think our plans would be on a regular basis to be able to augment it. So, I think we will be reviewing it from time-to-time to see if indeed we can do more.
I emphasis that in terms of our cash flow generation, which continues to be strong we believe again because the long-term outlook and the need for drilling over the next 15 years, especially specialized drilling. We believe very strongly that this is going to be a bigger and bigger part of the market as we go forward, that we will sustain cash flows or generate cash flows in excess of really what we are able to expand on internal growth.
We are still constrained about how fast we can build the labor force, that's what pulls back the amount of the money we would invest in new drills. We are at $80 million this year in terms of plans. It's difficult for us to grow our labor force much faster than that.
The acquisition that we looked at, Benoit would be a large typical acquisition that we would hope to accomplish as we go forward, at some $20 million. We can do that and still generate excess cash and we think it's appropriate to redistribute that to our shareholders.
Michael Mills - Beacon Securities
And maybe just finally, a comment on the gross margins; obviously nice gains in this quarter; how is the outlook for margins especially considering labor remains tight and maybe the pricing power isn't what it was a year ago?
Francis McGuire
Well, we think we're now at a stage -- we've gone through several evolutions if you would in our operations. We are now really starting to see some pickup in productivity, which is very gratifying.
Very clearly with a lot of the green crews, we know and our customers know that the green crews have not and can't be expected to perform quite as well as our seasoned crews, but a lot of these drillers are now getting their two and three years experience and you're seeing their meter rates go up and so we think that makes a tremendous contribution. One more meter on a shift is a tremendous contribution, because all of your other costs are pretty well fixed and so we believe at this point that that's going to be driving some potential for us to continue to improve our performance.
Your next question comes from Barry Allan - Research Capital.
Barry Allan - Research Capital
Just to expand on a little bit and you were quite complete in your description of where your drill rigs are employed and what your utilization rates are, I was a little surprised to see you a 68% utilization rate and I was just kind of wondering if you could expand upon the circumstances in Africa and whether you'll be able to get all the 12 of those rigs reemployed and the same with Chile and Argentina?
Francis McGuire
Okay, let me start with Africa. I think our plans are certainly in the short-term, not to put those back in. In Africa, Namibia and Tanzania are now performing the way we would expect them to and just recently getting there, so we are very happy what's happening there.
In some other parts of Africa, we still have some work to do and I think our strategy is let's not over extent the number of rigs; we're really trying to get the productivity up; let's concentrate on fewer and when we get that done, then we'll bring the other ones back in. So, we're really not planning over the next three, four months for instance to bring those back into production and we'll see how that goes.
In terms of the ones in Venezuela and Ecuador there'll be some movement there. I think in Ecuador, we are still hopeful that the government will come out with a regime that's acceptable to the mining community. There is a draft that's just come out very recently that seems to be encouraging and certainly Kinross believes that it's encouraging. If that happens, we believe that there will be a tremendous amount of activity there.
We also believe that in areas like Mongolia as they hopefully as well come to an agreement and create some search to it, that you will see there a significant upward swing. So, with the Ecuador on, we're waiting to see how the political situation develops. In some of the other areas though we are redeploying over the short-termed as contracts confirming themselves we'll be opening operations in new areas.
Denis Larocque
Okay and Barry on Chile, Argentina the rigs, this was temporary; if you get them on track -- we always get that shift between fourth and first quarter because there is a movement between jobs. The jobs are now pursued to shutdown and the rigs there on their way to other jobs.
Barry Allan - Research Capital
Yes, I see and that would be going into effectively what would be their spring, so you would start employing those over the course of the next probably quarter?
Francis McGuire
They are all employed now.
Mr. McGuire, there are no further questions at this time.
Francis McGuire
Well thank you very much everybody. Denis and I of course are available to answer any questions if you have any and thank you very much for your attention. We appreciate you being on the call and by the way we are having our AGM today in Toronto at the CFX in the gallery. If you would care to join us we'd love to see you at 10 o'clock.
Denis Larocque
Thank you very much.
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The art gallery section of Art Basel is the most prestigious category of acceptance; other categories include Art Nova, which allows galleries to show work completed in the last three years by two or three different artists, and Art Projects, which allows galleries to present a range of work by a single artist. Miami was snubbed entirely in the Art Nova category for 2012; last year Charest-Weinberg showed works by Nicolas Lobo and Ouattara Watts.
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They ranged from coastguards to musicians and their skills varied from bowls to water sports, but all seven had one thing in common – tireless hard work and dedication to contributing to the community.
Yesterday, at Norwich's Great Hospital, the Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk Richard Jewson JP awarded some of the county's hard working heroes with British Empire Medals as part of the New Year's Honours List.
The BEM - which was temporarily suspended in 1993 and only brought back into use in June 2012 for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee – rewards achievements of civil service worthy of recognition by the Crown.
Mr Jewson said that he thought the reintroduction of the medals was a "wonderful thing".
He added: "These people have provided us with wonderful stories about wonderful life times in every case about service to the community.
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The BEMs provide a chance to thank those whose work behind the scenes often goes unnoticed.
However, when asked whether more needs to be done to reward our volunteers, the Lord Lieutenant admitted that they aren't recognised as often as they should be,
He said: "No they probably aren't - but I spend much of my time taking an interest in what they do.
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Mr Jewson described the ceremony as a "very happy afternoon".
The BEM was founded in 1917 and awarded for "meritous" actions by civilians or military personnel.
But the honour was scrapped in 1993 by former Prime Minister John Major until 2011, when David Cameron reinstated it.
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Robert Francis
For 35 years, Robert Francis has risked his life to rescue others through his role in the coastguard rescue service.
In that time, Mr Francis, from Paston, said that he has seen the service transform.
He added: "There have been an awful lot of changes - we didn't even have vehicles in the early days. Now it is a modern organisation."
60-year-old Mr Francis responds to all sorts of calls on a daily basis as part of the Mundesley team.
He is trained in rope rescue - to help those in trouble on the cliffs - as well as water rescue.
The grandfather was given the medal for services to HM coastguard.
He described receiving the news as "very nice actually".
He added: "I suppose the nicest part is that when it was announced, the amount of texts and phone calls with good wishes coming from people was very nice and much appreciated."
Terry Adkin
When Terry Adkin read the letter bearing the news that he had been awarded a BEM, he thought it was a joke.
But the long-serving council house champion is more than deserving of the accolade after 12 years of representing tenants in Norwich.
74-year-old Mr Adkinwas a member of Norwich Tenants' City Wide Board for a number of years and was elected chairman in 2012.
The board represented tenants of Norwich City Council to ensure that they were satisfied.
Mr Adkin, who lives in West Pottergate, now sits on tenants' panels, which have taken over the work of the board, to scrutinise the council's performance. He is also the founding member of the West Pottergate Action Group.
"It was great to be awarded because I think it recognises volunteer work by local people and it is also good for the city and the council," he said.
Janet Henry
Although Janet Henry has nominated friends for awards, she never expected to be given one herself.
Mrs Henry, 70, has been at the heart of the community of Reepham for the last 36 years, but her hard work was finally recognised after she was awarded the medal for services to the community.
Mrs Henry, of Cawston Road, Reepham, has been involved in the town's nursery, youth club and council - as well as redesigning the pavilion and helping out with the hospital car service.
Still, the community stalwart she "didn't have a clue" that her hard work would be rewarded.
"Having tried to get the medal for other people, I know how hard it is to get one and I am even more grateful and shocked," she said. "I have always worked in a group, so I don't know why I have been awarded – maybe it is because I have staying power!"
Helen Dalton-Hare
She has worked tirelessly for 40 years to improve the quality of life for those with learning disabilities and, 12 years ago, she set up a ground-breaking charity in north Norfolk.
Yesterday, Helen Dalton-Hare's efforts were rewarded with a BEM for services to people with disabilities.
Mrs Dalton-Hare said she set up About With Friends from her home in Norwich Road, Cromer, to "enrich people's lives".
The charity provides opportunities for around 160 adults and children to take part in work and social activities.
"I try to give them access to opportunities they should already have," she added.
The mother-of-two said that she read the letter telling her she had been given a medal "about 10 times".
She added: "Then the tears started running down my face – it's great. I am very lucky that I have been working in something I love for so long."
John Gibson
Spreading his love for music has been a lifelong passion for John Gibson.
He was bandmaster of the Salvation Army's Norwich Citadel Band for some 40 years, and continues to teach, play and compose at the age of 91.
He was praised for his role as a leader and educator who was "always striving to get the best from those under his control", and for his "immense" contribution to the Salvation Army.
The former Royal Marine was head of music at Sprowston High School in the 1950s, served on education committees which shaped music education across the county, and toured the world with his band, performing three times at the Royal Albert Hall. Mr Gibson, of Church Lane, Sprowston, said felt he was not deserving of the honour, but added: "I am accepting because of all the bandsmen in my band, and the pupils I have taught."
Clive Gritten
While most enjoy Christmas Day surrounded by family, Clive Gritten has spent the last 15 years at soup kitchens.
Helping others, particularly young people, has been a lifelong passion for 59-year-old Mr Gritten, JP.
He and his wife, who live in Barton Turf, have worked with scouts and youngsters completing the Duke of Edinburgh Award for more than 40 years.
Yesterday, as he was awarded his BEM for services to children, young people and the community in Norfolk, Mr Gritten was described as "never asking for anything in return".
Although he described the award as "extraordinary", the modest father added that he didn't believe the news at first.
He said: "When it came through the letterbox, I had to see whether the postman had delivered it to be the wrong address - it is very special.
"We have got more out of it than the young people have."
Derek Webster
When Derek Webster was told that he would be rewarded for his services to bowls and local charities, he shed a tear at the thought of his hard work being recognised.
"It came completely out of the blue – I wasn't expecting to get one at all and I'm thrilled to pieces," he said.
Mr Webster, 79, started playing bowls in 1973. In 1994, he took over managing the Great Yarmouth Festival of Bowls tournament, a role he has held since.
The bowls stalwart, of Lichfield Road, Great Yarmouth, has raised more than £50,000 for charities through his work with the festival, which brings £1m to Great Yarmouth every year.
The grandfather puts his success down to working with a great team. He said: "Without the help of so many people who are involved I don't think I'd have been able to do it.
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