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The gold price, which was up about six dollars by the London open on their Thursday morning, suddenly jumped higher shortly around 8:30 a.m. GMT. That rally wasn't allowed to get far---and after that, the price chopped lower until 1:00 p.m. in New York---and from there it edged higher into the 5:15 p.m. EST close of electronic trading.
The low and high ticks were reported by the CME Group as $1,218.00 and $1,232.80 in the April contract.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at $1,221.70 spot, up $3.80 from Wednesday's close. Net volume was very much on the lighter side once again at 96,000 contracts.
The silver price got sold down by about two bits in early morning trading in the Far East on their Thursday morning. It rallied from there until 8:30 a.m. GMT in London, when it too blasted higher. But the vertical spike got capped the moment that the $17.00 spot price mark was breached---and from there, followed a similar pattern to gold, which was down until lunch time in New York.
The low and high were recorded as $16.605 and $17.04 in the March contract.
Silver finished the Thursday session at $16.835 spot, up a nickel on the day---and it would have closed materially higher if allowed to do so, which it obviously wasn't. Net volume was 27,000 contracts, which has been the net daily volume every day this week so far.
Both platinum and palladium had their tiny price spikes at 8:30 a.m. GMT as well---and neither metal did much after that. Platinum closed up six bucks---and palladium closed up 7 dollars. Here are the charts.
The dollar index closed late on Wednesday afternoon in New York at 94.92---and made it as high as 94.98 in late morning trading in Hong Kong. From there it began to slide, but someone was there to catch the proverbial falling knife right at the 94.00 mark around 11:50 a.m. EST in New York. It rallied about twenty basis points in the next hour and a bit, before chopping sideways into the close. The index finished the Thursday session at 94.18---down 74 basis points.
As I keep reminding you, please remember that the price of precious metals is mostly determined by what's going on in the COMEX futures market---and not what is going on in the currencies. If that was the case, we should have had a big up date in both gold and silver as the Thursday session progressed, but we didn't.
The gold stocks gapped up about a percent at the open, before quickly heading into negative territory. However, that didn't last long---and the shares traded in a wide range---mostly in positive territory---before rallying decisively starting at the 1:30 p.m. EST COMEX close. The HUI finished up 0.98 percent.
The silver equities spent the entire trading session in positive territory---and clearly outperformed their golden brethren, as Nick Laird's Intraday Silver Sentiment Index closed up 2.29 percent.
The CME Daily Delivery Report showed that 36 gold and zero silver contracts were posted for delivery on Monday within the COMEX-approved depositories. HSBC USA was the short/issuer on all of them---and JPMorgan out of its client account stopped 34 of them.
The CME Daily Delivery Report for the Thursday trading session showed that February gold open interest declined by 5 contracts yesterday, leaving 651 still open. Of course the 36 contracts posted for Monday delivery in the previous paragraph must be subtracted out to get the true number. Silver's February open interest is up another 13 contracts---and now sits at 36 contracts still open.
At last there was a withdrawal from GLD, as an authorized participant took out 57,607 troy ounces. And as of 9:28 p.m. EST yesterday evening, there were no reported changes in SLV.
Since yesterday was Thursday, Joshua Gibbons, the "Guru of the SLV Bar List" updated his website with the goings-on inside the iShares.com Internet site for their reporting week that ended on Wednesday---and this is what he had to say.
"Analysis of the 11 February 2015 bar list, and comparison to the previous week's list. No bars were added, removed or had serial number changes. As of the time that the bar list was produced, it was overallocated 271.9 oz. All daily changes are reflected on the bar list. A quiet week!"
There was another sales report from the U.S. Mint yesterday. They sold 2,500 troy ounces of gold eagles---500 one-ounce 24K gold buffaloes---and another 73,500 silver eagles.
Over at the COMEX-approved depositories on Wednesday, they reported receiving 40,126 troy ounces of gold, but didn't ship anything out. All the activity was at HSBC USA---and the link is here.
In silver, nothing was reported received, but 643,602 troy ounces were sent out the door. The link to that activity is here.
I have a decent number of stories for you today---and I'll happily leave the final edit up to you.
Following last month's narrative-crushing drop in retail sales, despite all that low interest rate low gas price stimulus, January was more of the same as hopeful expectations for a modest rebound were denied. Falling 0.8% (against a 0.9% drop in Dec), missing expectations of -0.4%, this is the worst back-to-back drop in retail sales since Oct 2009. Retail sales declined in 6 of the 13 categories.
Clearly it has been a very cold winter, with both December and now January big disappointments.
Finally, none of the above should come to a surprise to those who read our article from Tuesday, previewing not only today's miss but explaining its reason as well: Why Bank Of America Is Stumped: Despite "Lower Gas Prices" U.S. Consumer Spending Has Plunged
One just has to laugh while reading the following hilarious attempt to justify the cognitive dissonance by Bank of America's analysts - and everyone else for that matter - who were oh-so-certain that tumbling (if not any more) gas prices would translate into a "splurge" of spending
on non-gas related goods and instead, when looking at their internal data, are seeing something inexplicable.
This Zero Hedge story showed up on their Internet site at 8:38 a.m. EST Thursday morning---and today's first news item is courtesy of Dan Lazicki.
The number of U.S. properties in foreclosure upon rose 5 percent in January, driven by a jump in bank repossessions, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Thursday.
A total of 37,292 homes were repossessed in January, a 15-month high. Overall, 119,888 properties were at some stage of the foreclosure process, still down 4 percent from a year earlier.
The unwinding of distressed housing assets, a multi-year legal process in many states, was gathering pace, RealtyTrac said.
A nationwide increase in scheduled foreclosure auctions in 21 states in January reflected that they were "coming off somewhat artificially low levels last year," RealtyTrac Vice President Daren Blomquist said in a statement.
This article appeared on the newsmax.com Internet site at 10:40 a.m. EST yesterday morning---and I thank West Virginia reader Elliot Simon for sending it along.
As of last night, the choking of the U.S. supply-chain has officially begin, when as the L.A. Times reported, "West Coast ports — including the nation's busiest in Los Angeles and Long Beach — will partially shut down for four days as shipping companies plan to dramatically slash dock work amid an increasingly contentious labor dispute."
Terminal operators and shipping lines said that they would stop the unloading of ships Thursday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, because they don't want to pay overtime to workers who, they allege, have deliberately slowed operations to the point of causing a massive bottleneck. Thursday is Lincoln's Birthday and Monday is Presidents Day, which are holidays for the workers.
Slowing down work "amounts to a strike with pay, and we will reduce the extent to which we pay premium rates for such a strike," said Wade Gates, spokesman for the Pacific Maritime Assn., the employer group representing the shipping companies. The local union in Los Angeles and Long Beach has denied using slowdown tactics.
According to the L.A. Times, it is not clear if the partial shutdown foreshadows a total closure of the ports. Fears of a lockout of dockworkers, who have been without a contract since July, have risen in the last week and the two sides haven't held talks since Friday. S.F. Gate was far more clear on what the dockworker action means: "West Coast ports to shut down 4 days amid labor dispute."
This longish article, with lots of photos, appeared on the Zero Hedge website at 11:20 a.m. EST on Thursday morning---and the first of many readers through the door with this was Brad Robertson.
President Obama proposed a dramatic increase in U.S. defense budget which is already nearing half trillion dollars backtracking on his initial policy of slashing military spending.
The most striking thing about the proposed military budget increase is that the alleged Russian threat would enable the Pentagon to spend an additional $51 billion on military missions in different parts of the world, thousands of miles away from U.S. shores.
While President Obama may have received the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2010, he sure looks like he's preparing for war. Not only has the President proposed increasing militant spending, which would backtrack on his previous pledges of slashing it, but he also justified it on the grounds of a supposed 'Russian threat'. Specifically, the President is requesting nearly $170 million dollars to apparently 'counter Russia' in Eastern Europe, with an additional $789 million to maintain and expand the U.S. military's presence in Europe.
This story, complete with eye-opening headline, showed up on the sputniknews.com Internet site at noon Moscow time back on February 7---and I thank reader M.A. for sharing it with us.
Sweden has cut interest rates below zero and launched quantitative easing to fight deflation, becoming the latest Scandinavian state to join Europe's escalating currency wars.
The Riksbank caught markets by surprise, reducing the benchmark lending rate to minus 0.10 percent and unveiled its first asset purchases, vowing to take further action at any time to stop the country falling into a deflationary trap. The bank presented the move as precautionary step due to rising risks of a "poorer outcome abroad" and the crisis in Greece.
Janet Henry from HSBC said the measures are clearly a "beggar-thy neighbor" manoeuvre to weaken the krone, the latest such action in a global currency war that does little to tackle the deeper problem of deficient world demand.
The move comes as neighboring Denmark takes ever more drastic steps to stop a flood of money overwhelming its exchange rate peg to the euro and tightening the deflationary noose.
This commentary by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard put in an appearance on the telegraph.co.uk Internet site at 4:58 p.m. GMT on their Thursday afternoon, which was 11:58 a.m. EST. I found it embedded in a GATA release.
Credit Suisse chief executive Brady Dougan has agreed to give up 20% of his bonus after the bank's $2.8 billion (CHF2.5 billion) tax evasion fine last year. His fellow executives will take the same cut while directors have agreed to slash their pay by a quarter.
But top bosses are not the only staff to feel the consequences of the United States prosecution. Total compensation at the bank fell 9% last year, partly as a result of the financial sanctions, Credit Suisse announced as it released 2014 earnings.
In a pre-recorded video interview, Dougan praised the bank's staff for "working through this issue". He added that the voluntary pay cut decision at executive and board level was taken "in order to reflect the impact of the settlement on the overall results of the firm."
I feel for them, but I can't quite reach them. This article showed up on the swissinfo.ch Internet site at 2:38 p.m. Europe time on their Thursday afternoon, which was 8:38 a.m. in New York. I thank South African reader B.V. for finding it for us.
Greece's new far-left government has promised to seek millions of euros in reparations for the brutal Nazi occupation of Greece during World War II amid a row with Berlin over repaying an EU-IMF bailout. FRANCE 24 reports from the German capital.
The idea that Berlin has an outstanding debt with Athens over World War II crimes and forced loans has been gaining ground in Greece since Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras pledged to make the issue a priority during his first major speech to parliament last week.
Greeks authorities say they are owed around €160 billion in war reparations, a sum that accounts for more than half of Greece's current €240 billion bailout debt to both public and private creditors.
Germany rejects the claims, saying that all war reparations have been previously settled through European treaties.
This brief news item, showed up on the france24.com Internet site on Tuesday---and it's the first offering of the day from Roy Stephens.
The International Monetary Fund announced a new $17.5 billion lifeline for Ukraine, which would bring the total bailout package to $40 billion. The new sum would be a four-year program.
Lagarde will propose the $17.5 billion expansion program to the IMF by the end of the month.
"The program is not yet approved by the governing council. I hope to offer it for approval by the end of February," she said Thursday.
"This new four-year arrangement would support immediate economic stabilization in Ukraine as well as a set of bold policy reforms aimed at restoring robust growth over the medium term and improving living standards for the Ukrainian people," Lagarde said in a statement.
This news item was posted on the Russia Today website at 8:11 a.m. Moscow time on their Thursday morning---and it's the second offering in a row from Roy Stephens.
The coming days will provide a quick, tangible test of whether a new peace agreement announced Thursday will prove any more effective in calming the nearly year-old war in Ukraine than a similar cease-fire last September that was widely ignored.
Optimists point to the presence and personal imprimatur of Europe's two most important leaders, as well as President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro O. Poroshenko, as a sign that this agreement, called Minsk II, would prove more resilient than the version reached here last September, Minsk I.
Pessimists — some would say realists — believe this latest accord only papers over many of the nagging problems that sparked the fighting in the first place.
Critical questions were left ambiguous or kicked down the road, including the status of the breakaway territories, a calendar for Ukraine to regain control over its border with Russia and even the truce line itself.
This commentary appeared on The New York Times website yesterday sometime---and that makes it three in a row from Roy Stephens. The headline above is new. The old one read "Leaders in Ukraine Talks Announce Cease-Fire Agreement".
Already there is debate about who has "won" and who has "lost" in the Minsk talks.
The short answer is that as the German foreign minister Steinmeier correctly said there is no breakthrough but the Russians and the NAF have made progress.
One point needs to be explained or reiterated (since I have explained it already and many times).
The agreement does not make provision for federalisation or autonomy for the Donbass but still only refers to the grant of a law according the Donbass temporary special status within the Ukraine.
This commentary showed up on the russia-insider.com Internet site early yesterday afternoon Moscow time---and it's the second contribution of the day from reader B.V.
The Ukrainian ceasefire deal reached during the Minsk talks is only a weak beginning, 10 percent of a path to long-term peace, says Jan Oberg, Director of Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research. If it fails, it might lead to disaster.
RT: Do the results of the negotiations give grounds to speak about a lasting peace in Ukraine?
Jan Oberg: I wish I could say yes. I think it's very good they have met; they are basically confirming what they have tried to do before. And every time you meet and you don't split it's a good thing. It may be building trust over time. But this is only a very weak beginning. I'll tell you a ceasefire is just a beginning and the question is how it will be enforced if somebody breaks it in the future, and I've argued for United Nations troops to get into the place. And nobody seems to have it on the agenda.
Secondly I might say…it's not professional and not a very conducive to peace the way in which they met. You meet at 9 o'clock in the evening, you'd sit all night, you're dead exhausted, you already have had a very tough travel schedule, you meet at a huge palace, in a huge room where you can have no personal contacts. This whole thing is not set up the way a peacemaker, a mediator, would do it. I would meet far away in the countryside without the press; I would have informality, unlimited time to reach a result and etc. But under these circumstances, let's be hopeful.
This op-edge/interview appeared on the Russia Today Internet site at 5:05 p.m. Moscow time on their Thursday afternoon---and it's another offering from Roy Stephens.
Following marathon talks in Minsk that lasted more than 17 hours, the leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine reached an agreement that appears to align with the Kremlin's demands. The document calls for a cease-fire to begin Feb. 15, the withdrawal of weapons and the enactment of constitutional reforms in Ukraine. Though Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has denied that the agreement includes provisions for the creation of autonomous regions or the federalization of Ukraine, the document on the whole does fulfill several of the Kremlin's long-standing demands with regards to the status of Donbas.
The new cease-fire agreement is based largely on the original one that went into effect Sept. 5. It focuses on the withdrawal of heavy artillery systems, which have been prominent throughout the conflict, within 14 days of the cease-fire's implementation. The new cease-fire requires these artillery systems to be withdrawn far beyond their maximum effective ranges, a move that will create a buffer to prevent escalation and heavy artillery fire on the demarcation line. Missing from the agreement, however, is a decision on the fate of the still heavily contested Ukrainian positions in Debaltseve. Because both sides will have to withdraw their artillery systems, the result will be a very deep area without artillery cover in the center of the demarcation line.
This short article originally showed up on the stratfor.com website yesterday, but it found a home over at Zero Hedge at 1:56 p.m. EST yesterday. This story is courtesy of Dan Lazicki.
British Prime Minister David Cameron maintained a tougher line, saying he welcomed the second Minsk agreement, but added "Putin has to know sanctions will remain in place without concrete progress on the ground."
Lithuania President, Dalia Grybauskaite, however, said that the issue of actually changing the current EU sanctions regime against the Russian Federation would not be discussed until March.
However, some representatives of the German business community consider the latest agreement to be a possible precursor for the lifting of sanctions on Russia. "The result achieved in Minsk could be a second step to opening the road to gradually lifting anti-Russian sanctions," Eckhard Cordes, Chairman of the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, told DPA.
A far more contentious issue on whether or not to send lethal defense arms to Kiev is also likely to be struck form the agenda in Brussels, Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxemburg, said.
This longish, but interesting article appeared on the Russia Today website at 12:31 p.m. Moscow time on their Thursday afternoon---and it's courtesy of Roy Stephens as well.
EU leaders gave a "cautious" welcome to the Ukraine ceasefire deal on Thursday (12 February) but warned of further sanctions if it isn't implemented.
"We gave it our cautious approval. But words set down on paper must be accompanied by deeds … If this doesn't happen we will not hesitate to take further steps", Council chief Donald Tusk told press after a summit in Brussels.
"This conflict is not just about the territorial integrity of Ukraine. The whole geopolitical order in Europe after 1989 is at stake and we will be ready for any further development, good or bad".
He noted the leaders didn't discuss new sanctions in detail.
This news item appeared on the euobserver.com Internet site just after midnight Europe time on their Thursday morning---and once I again I thank Roy Stephens for digging it up for us.
Judging by the report on Russia Today, I conclude that the Ukraine peace deal worked out in Minsk by Putin, Merkel, Hollande, and Poroshenko has little chance of success.
As Washington is not a partner to the Minsk peace deal, how can there be peace when Washington has made policy decisions to escalate the conflict and to use the conflict as a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia?
The Minsk agreement makes no reference to the announcement by Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of U.S. Army Europe, that Washington is sending a battalion of U.S. troops to Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces how to fight against Russian and rebel forces. The training is scheduled to begin in March, about two weeks from now. Gen. Hodges says that it is very important to recognize that the Donetsk and Luhansk forces "are not separatists, these are proxies for President Putin."
How is there a peace deal when Washington has plans underway to send arms and training to the U.S. puppet government in Kiev?
This commentary by Paul appeared on his Internet site late yesterday morning EST---and I thank Dan Lazicki for his last offering in today's column.
The World Gold Council's annual demand trends study for 2014 shows a year of painful readjustment and rebalancing for the gold market after a record-breaking 2013.
Overall demand slipped 4% to 3,923 tonnes last year with jewellery demand falling 10% to 2,253 tonnes compared to 2013. Technology demand continued its long-term decline, dropping to an 11-year low in 2014.
On the flip side central bank purchases jumped close to a 50-year high of 477 tonnes while net investment demand managed to eke out gains of 2% for a total of 904.6 tonnes during the year.
Juan Carlos Artigas, Director of Investment Research at the WGC, cautions however that the positive year-on-year comparison was not necessarily driven by an improvement in investor sentiment, but rather by a slowdown in outflows.
This is a story similar to the Bloomberg article that appeared in this column yesterday---and except for the headline, the spin on it isn't as cheery. It was posted on the mining.com Internet site yesterday sometime---and I thank reader M.A. for his second contribution to today's column.
Richard Fisher, the Federal Reserves' inflation hawk, owns platinum, uranium and over $1 million in gold according to annual filings of the 12 Fed presidents for 2010.
The full list of holdings can be found on page 522 of the disclosure documents that The New York Times posted online.
There are no miners amongst Fisher's common stock holdings, but there are a renewable energy companies, such as First Solar and Waterfurnace Energy. Investments are under $50,000.
Precious metals still make up a small amount of Fisher's portfolio. The Texan also owns several millions in property and municipal bonds.
This tiny article is the second one in a row from the mining.com Internet site. This one was posted there on Wednesday---and it's courtesy of Elliot Simon.
A lot of people who buy bits of physical gold aren't looking to make a bracelet or ring. They buy gold because they believe disaster is imminent.
These investors are convinced gold will spike to $10,000 an ounce (it's currently around $1,225) when the U.S. government implodes, said Peter Hug, an executive at metals retailer Kitco.
Hug calls these people "crazies" and says they form a substantial amount of the U.S. physical gold market -- at least 25%.
It's no secret that gold has long been viewed as a form of insurance against disaster. The thinking is that even if the financial or political system collapses, gold will still hold value.
Kitco is a very reputable company---and after suffering with the likes of Jon Nadler for years, one would think that Bart Kitner wouldn't let any of their company executives anywhere near a microphone or a reporter unless they had something positive to say. This is obviously not the case, as disparaging a large chunk of your client base in the public press is never a good idea. This article appeared on the money.cnn.com Internet site 10:02 a.m. EST on Thursday morning---and the first person through the door with it yesterday was Howard Brown.
Physical gold sales in Europe jumped in January, dealers said, as concerns over the euro zone's outlook sparked by central bank action and anti-bailout party Syriza's victory in Greek elections drove consumers to load up on bullion.
Financial markets were roiled last month after the European Central Bank unveiled a new plan to pump billions of euros into the economy, the Swiss National Bank cut the franc's peg to the single currency, and Syriza won a snap election in Athens.
That prompted a 6.7 percent drop in the euro versus the dollar, its worst monthly performance since mid-2012, and sent investors scurrying into other assets, including gold.
German coin dealer Degussa reported a 35 percent year-on-year increase in its gold coin sales in Germany in January.
As I commented yesterday, if there is buying going on, it certainly isn't showing in the gold and silver ETFs at Switzerland's Zürcher Kantonalbank at all this year. This Reuters article, filed from London, appeared on their Internet site at 11:14 a.m. EST yesterday morning---and it's worth reading. I thank reader U.D. for passing it around yesterday.
The latest Gold Demand Trends report from the World Gold Council (WGC) does indeed suggest that total 'consumer' demand for the precious metal in India last year did exceed that of China after falling behind in the previous year. But the report is careful not to actually state that India's total gold demand exceeded China's due to the substantial amount of gold flowing into China's banks, which falls outside the GFMS calculated 'consumer demand' parameters. At last we have an explanation for the huge disparity between the apparent gold demand figures in the GFMS reports, which the WGC utilises, and the continuing huge levels of Chinese demand suggested by the reported withdrawals from the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE).
The WGC explains it thus: "The flow of gold into China has far exceeded the amount needed to meet domestic jewellery and investment demand in recent years. The role of the commercial banks in using this gold for financing purposes has been well documented, including in our report, Understanding China's gold market, and this activity expanded in 2014. To some extent, this helps explain why Shanghai Gold Exchange delivery figures are significantly higher than consumer demand."
So there are two demand categories here, one of which is recorded in the WGC and GFMS figures and one which is not. Arguably it is the bigger figure of the two which is most relevant as far as flows of physical gold from West to East are concerned and, as we have pointed out before, the circa 2,100 tonnes withdrawn from the SGE in 2014, suggesting a fall in 'total' Chinese demand last year of between 2-3%, is indeed compatible with the fall in 'consumer' demand of over 30%. So India may have regained its position as the world's largest gold 'consumer', but remains far behind China in terms of actual gold flows into the two countries. So there you have it! The media headlines you see saying India has regained top gold demand position are both correct, and hugely incorrect, depending on how the statistics are interpreted.
Like I and others at GATA have said for over a decade---you can't believe anything that comes out of GFMS or any other precious metal organization when it comes to gold or silver. They paint whatever supply/demand picture they want. That includes the World Gold Council, the CPM Group and The Silver Institute. My contempt for them knows no bounds. Reg Howe had it exactly right about GFMS---and I salute him from this page! This excellent commentary by Lawrie showed up on the mineweb.com Internet site at 3:07 p.m. GMT on Thursday afternoon---and it's a must read for sure.
For some time now there has appeared to be an enormous discrepancy between apparent Chinese estimated demand figures as calculated by bodies like the World Gold Council (WGC) and GFMS and the reality of Chinese gold withdrawals from the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE). And it all seems to be down to the way the statistics are calculated and what is included in the words 'consumption' or 'demand' by the analysts. To some extent this has been clarified in part by the latest Gold Demand Trends report from the WGC which comments as follows: "The flow of gold into China has far exceeded the amount needed to meet domestic jewellery and investment demand in recent years. The role of the commercial banks in using this gold for financing purposes has been well documented, including in our report, Understanding China's gold market, and this activity expanded in 2014. To some extent, this helps explain why Shanghai Gold Exchange delivery figures are significantly higher than consumer demand."
The apparent difference between what we will describe as Chinese 'consumption' and Chinese 'total demand' is thus huge. WGC/GFMS calculates 'consumption' as being made up only of jewellery, technology and investment demand and in mainland China's case this came to around 814 tonnes in 2014, around 38% down from that of 2013. But with SGE withdrawals coming to a little over 2,100 tonnes in 2014 – which some equate to total Chinese demand – this leaves a tremendous gap of almost 1,300 tonnes in the two different calculations. The WGC will tell you that there is an element of double counting in the SGE withdrawal figures, but admits this is probably small, only relating to some recycled gold, and now suggests the balance is held by Chinese banks (which it classifies as stocks and therefore doesn't include the figures in its demand classification).
This is more commentary by Lawrie on the same issue. This appeared on his own website lawrieongold.com yesterday as well---and it's worth reading too!
These four photos were taken in the Painted Desert at the north end of Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona---and just north of Interstate 40/U.S. Route 66---and about 25 miles east of Holbrook. They were taken about two hours after the photos I took in Snowflake that appeared in yesterday's column. As usual, the 'click to enlarge' feature really helps here.
The building in the photo below is the historic Painted Desert Inn at Kachina Point---and I was able to get myself in a position where the picture didn't include the associated parking lot!
Part of the famous U.S. Route 66 used to pass through the Painted Desert at this point---and I couldn't resist. I cropped it a bit to remove some offending power poles. Here's the link to the original Route 66 song---and the theme from the TV series.
This last photo is just south of Interstate 40, but still in the park---and forms the transition zone between the painted desert and the petrified forest. Not that they're different, as one is just an extension of the other. Note the petroglyphs on the rock in the foreground. There are lots of them in this area.
First Majestic is a mining company focused on silver production in México and is aggressively pursuing the development of its existing mineral property assets. The Company presently owns and operates five producing silver mines; the La Parrilla Silver Mine, the San Martin Silver Mine, the La Encantada Silver Mine, the La Guitarra Silver Mine, and the Del Toro Silver Mine. Production from these five mines is anticipated to be between 11.8 to 13.2 million ounces of pure silver or 15.3 to 17.1 million ounces of silver equivalents in 2015.
Let me make it easy for those who refuse to acknowledge the silver manipulation. Simply explain why 8 traders, mostly domestic and foreign banks, would hold short the equivalent of 40% of the world's annual production---and a third of all the silver bullion that exists---at prices below the average primary cost of production and nearly 70% below the price levels of four years ago.
How could such a concentrated short position be explained in legitimate terms and what would be its purpose? What effect would such a large short position have on the price of any commodity---and how do you see it being resolved if it wasn't permanent?
I don't expect any serious answers to such questions, as it appears to be easier to malign the questioner as a conspiracy theorist instead, but I know these questions have never been addressed in a straightforward manner by anyone who denies the silver manipulation. The funny thing about serious questions that can't be answered is that they can lead to personal epiphanies, such as the type I experienced 30 years ago when Izzy asked me why silver prices were so low in the face of a deficit. One of these days the questions may be asked by someone in position to do something about it. - Silver analyst Ted Butler: 07 February 2015
Except for the sudden rallies, followed by the equally forceful sell-offs shortly after London opened, it was another day where both gold and silver were under quiet selling pressure through all of London trading---and most of New York as well---even though both metals finished up a bit on the day.
And as I pointed out earlier, the face plant in the U.S. dollar index was not a factor in the precious metal prices yesterday, as their prices are set in the COMEX futures market---and whatever the Big 8 short sellers in both gold and silver decide, is where prices go.
Here are the 6-month charts for both gold and silver.
And as I write this paragraph, the London open is about twenty minutes away. All four precious metals have been creeping higher during Far East trading on their Friday. Net gold volume is a bit under 17,000 contracts---and silver's net volume is around 3,500 contracts. The dollar index, which took a 20 basis points nose dive back below the 94.00 level starting around 11:30 a.m. Hong Kong time, is now back above it by a few basis points---and is currently down 13 basis points at the moment.
Today at 3:30 p.m. EST we get the latest Commitment of Traders Report figures from the CFTC---and as both Ted and I have mentioned, we'll see some pretty impressive improvements in the Commercial net short positions in both silver and gold. But whatever improvements are shown, the report still remains in a major bearish configuration in both silver and gold.
Could we rally from here? Sure, but the odds aren't in our favour in the medium or long term---and unless "da boyz" get over run, a brutal sell-off still remains in our future. The only uncertainties are, is will it be quick---death by a single thrust---or the 'slicing of the salami' variety? Stay tuned.
Of course supply and demand will manifest itself at some point, but when, is the $64,000 question. I don't know, but the day it does become a factor, we won't have to ask, as the new prices will tell you everything you need to know.
And as I send this out the door at 5:15 a.m. EST, I note that the rallies in all four precious metals were turned lower at, or just before the London open. Whether this trend continues for the remainder of the Friday trading session is unknown. Net gold volume is just under 24,000 contracts---and silver's net volume is around 5,100 contracts. Not a lot to see here---and the dollar index is hanging on to the 94.00 level by its proverbial fingernails.
That's all I have for today. Enjoy your weekend, or what's left of it if you live west of the International Date Line---and I'll see you here tomorrow.


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Job 35Magandang Balita Biblia (MBBTAG)
35 Nagpatuloy pa si Elihu,
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9 "Kapag ang mga tao'y inaapi, sila ay dumaraing,
14 "Ikaw na rin ang nagsabing ang Diyos ay hindi mo nakikita,
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2017-04-29 15:06
Iranian banks to open branches in Europe
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA) – Head of Monetary and Banking Research Institute (MBRI) said opening branches of Iranian and European banks had been placed on the agenda.
2017-04-29 13:00
US blockage of $3.5bn Iranian assets banditry
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA) – Iran's foreign minister described confiscation of 3.5 billion dollars of CBI assets by the US as an instance of international banditry.
2017-04-29 09:46
Russia, Turkey to undertake Iran's intl. settlements
TEHRAN, Apr. 29 (MNA) – CBI governor has announced that Iran's international settlements will be transferred from south Persian Gulf littoral states to Russia and Turkey.
2017-04-23 09:39
Iranian Parliament after stronger Tehran-Tbilisi trade ties
TEHRAN, Apr. 23 (MNA) – Ali Larijani said the Iranian Parliament seeks to pass laws that can take a positive step in facilitating trade relations between Iran and Georgia.
2017-04-19 19:02
Portugal ready to remove banking barriers to expand coop. with Iran
TEHRAN, Apr. 19 (MNA) – Portugal's Secretary of State of Internationalization Jorge Costa Oliveira expressed readiness to expand cooperation with Iran through removing banking obstacles, especially in trade sector.
2017-04-18 13:02
Tehran, Tbilisi mull over expanding multilateral ties
TEHRAN, Apr. 18 (MNA) – Iranian and Georgian foreign ministers, at a meeting on Tuesday in Tbilisi, investigated venues for reinvigoration of mutual relations.
2017-04-18 11:26
CBI delegation to depart for US
TEHRAN, Apr. 18 (MNA) – A delegation of Central Bank of Iran will leave for the US in order to take part at spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group.
2017-04-17 15:01
Iran, Turkmenistan talks open new chapter in bilateral ties
ASHGABAT, Apr. 17 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with his Turkmen counterpart Rashid Muradov on Monday.
2017-04-15 12:57
Iranian, Pakistani central banks sign coop. agreement
TEHRAN, Apr. 15 (MNA)– In a statement issued on Friday evening, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported on signing of an agreement with the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) for banking and payment mechanisms cooperation.
2017-04-09 09:16
Tehran, Kuala Lumpur draft banking coop. agreement
TEHRAN, Apr. 09 (MNA) – On the sidelines of ISBF annual meetings in Kuala Lumpur, central banks of Iran and Malaysia agreed to bolster bilateral banking relations.
2017-04-05 11:25
Iran, Hungary to boost nuclear energy coop.
ISFAHAN, Apr. 05 (MNA) – Hungarian deputy PM Zsolt Semjén said Iran and Hungary will sign a contract on expanding cooperation on nuclear energy to further cement bilateral ties.
2017-04-03 12:14
Iran resumes coop. with intl. financial institutions
TEHRAN, Apr. 03 (MNA) – An OIETAI official said Iran has resumed cooperation with international financial institutions in the post-JCPOA era.
2017-03-31 12:25
Banking system 'falling short of meeting economic requirements'
TEHRAN, Mar. 31 (MNA) – President's Chief of Staff has said JCPOA contributed to banking system; however, non-nuclear barriers have still made it lethargic and inefficient.
2017-03-29 15:56
Tehran, Moscow to use national currencies in mutual settlements
TEHRAN, Mar. 29 (MNA) – CBI Governor Valiollah Seif said the project to use national currencies in trade transaction between Iran and Russia was in final stages.
2017-03-17 16:28
Trump on edge with everybody: Boroujerdi
TEHRAN, Mar. 17 (MNA) – Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security of Iran's Parliament Alaeddin Boroujerdi told Bosnian daily Oslobođenje that Trump is in trouble with numerous countries.
2017-03-15 10:09
FM session reviews expansion of Iran-LatAm banking ties
TEHRAN, Mar. 15 (MNA) – Ways for expanding Iran-Latin America's banking transactions were discussed in a joint session between political managers of LatAm region, JCPOA committee at Foreign Ministry and representatives of Iranian banks.
2017-03-13 10:33
Tehran, Muscat ink banking MoU
TEHRAN, Mar. 13 (MNA) – A cooperation agreement has been signed between central banks of Iran and Oman aiming to boost banking cooperation between the two sides.
2017-03-09 16:44
Austria's Oberbank transacting with 21 Iranian banks: CEO
TEHRAN, Mar. 09 (MNA) – Franz Gasselsberger, the CEO of Austria's Oberbank is visiting Tehran at the head of a senior economy and trade delegation accompanied by Josef Pühringer, the Governor of Upper Austria.
2017-03-08 10:37
Iran places no limit on coop. with EU members
TEHRAN, Mar. 08 (MNA) – Iranian First Vice President Es'hagh Jahangiri said Iran welcomes investment of Slovakian companies and does not know any limits to cooperation with European Union member states.
2017-03-07 15:13
Tehran, Bangkok stress need to strengthen banking coop.
JAKARTA, Mar. 07 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a meeting with his Thai counterpart stressed the need for the expansion of cooperation.
2017-03-07 09:03
Iran, Europe to open joint bank
TEHRAN, Mar. 07 (MNA) – A senior banking director has reported on establishment of an Iranian-European bank with three members of Iran and four from Europe serving on the management board.
2017-03-06 20:48
France ready to renew Iran's rail fleet
TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) – France's economy minister has voiced readiness of Paris to contribute to modernization of Iran's rail industry.
2017-03-03 23:47
Kazakhstan to develop banking ties with Iran
TEHRAN, Mar. 03 (MNA) – The Vice-Governor of Iran's Central Bank for Foreign Exchange Affairs, Gholamali Kamyab, met with Kassymbek, the Kazakh Minister of Investment and Development on Thursday in Astana.
2017-02-27 20:47
Nuclear negotiator:
JCPOA providing Iran with power parameter, American Enterprise says
TEHRAN, Feb. 27 (MNA) – A senior nuclear negotiator and head of JCPOA Follow-Up Committee has said JCPOA has a boon for Iran's beleaguered economy.
2017-02-24 12:39
Iran, Malaysia to expand trade ties using local currencies
TEHRAN, Feb. 24 (MNA) – Deputy head of Central Bank of Iran stressed facilitating trade transactions by using local currencies, welcoming the interest of Malaysian banks in opening Ringgit accounts for Iranian trade banks.
2017-02-20 15:35
Iranian, Russian banks to back economic activists
TEHRAN, Feb. 20 (MNA) – Bank Melli Iran and Russia's Mir-Business Bank have expressed their complete readiness to back businessmen of the two countries.
2017-02-12 21:24
Ties with Moldova should be improved
TEHRAN, Feb. 12 (MNA) – President Hassan Rouhani has said Tehran and Chișinău should accelerate trade and banking ties.
2017-02-11 15:26
Euro replacing dollar in Iran's banking transactions
TEHRAN, Feb. 11 (MNA) – Trump's arrival has shed doubts on international ties of Iranian banks who are now after replacing dollar with euro or local currencies in financial transactions in bid to counter banking sanctions.
2017-02-04 19:32
S Korea opens €100mn LOC for Iranian producers
TEHRAN, Feb. 04 (MNA) – EDBI head said South Korea had allocated a Line of Credit (LOC) worth 100 million euros for imports of raw materials manufactured in Iran.
2017-01-26 16:40
Iran, Turkey sign MoU on banking coop.
TEHRAN, Jan. 26 (MNA) – To reach a trade volume of $30 million by the end of 2017, Iran and Turkey started a joint committee on banking relations.


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Julie Simone Lands Reality Show Pilot, Radio Gig
NEW YORK — Fetish star Julie Simone has landed a role as one of the stars of reality pilot "Real Dommes of New York."
The show, created and produced by Chelsea Downs and Corey Synder, is described as a quirky PG look at the daily lives of professional New York dominatrices.
In the first episode that can be seen on YouTube, viewers get to see Simone manage her private sessions and what being a dominatrix really entails.
The series also stars Sinnamon Love, Sienna Aldridge, Mistress G and Elena De Luca.
"I'm so thrilled with how this came out," Simone said. "I worked with Chelsea very closely to ensure it was as accurate as possible while still being entertaining. I've gotten some really good feedback from people in the scene, especially regarding the communication aspect, which makes me happy."
She added, "I brought my pals Sinnamon Love and Elena DeLuca in on the project — their intros are so cute."
Simone has also become the newest addition to the Naughty Bits radio show. She joins comedian Heather Height and erotic writer/sex researcher Aden Ardennes, who discuss a broad range of topics including sex tips, relationships, kinks and fetishes, and the trinity of sexuality: gay, straight, andbBisexual (and those in between).
The show is live every Saturday night from 8-9:30 p.m. EST on the Naughty Bits Ustream Channel. It can also be heard on CWERadio.com right before "The Mr. Producer" show and on RadioFreeSatan.com.
Listeners can email their questions to firstname.lastname@example.com, and have them answered on the air.
"Lots of shows claim to be female-driven while a man stands behind the booth and tells them what to say. This show actually is produced by an intelligent woman who doesn't need to resort to nudity or gratuitous sex acts to get people to tune it. I'm excited and honored to be added to the show. Tune in this Saturday and every Saturday to hear tales of my sessions and shoots," Simone said.
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Welcome to /girly/ - Girly Fetishism and Feminization
This board is for the posting and discussion of all things feminine.
Dickgirls belong in /di/.
Camwhoring is allowed, both male and female, but will be suspended if abused.
Requests belong in /r/ or within an existing thread, so long as it's relevant.
Absloutely NO underage (under 18 years old).
This is a trial board, and will remain around if it stays active.
If you have any questions, feel free to catch us on IRC.UPDATE: This board is here to stay. Congrats, girlies!
The fate of the wordfilter is being determined. For the time being, here's a screenshot of the thread explaining it.
A Caption Dump sticky would be nice.
I'm really surprised this place still exists. I was here in 2012 dealing very poorly with my internalized shit. I'm dealing with it better now and don't come here anymore, but I just remembered this place after I was trying to find an unrelated IRC server address and was curious. Anyone been here since then. Are you alright? I'm hoping that less people are struggling with self hate than when I left.
yeah man thanks. been around since this was just fapchan
I've been around for a couple years. I'm still mostly just sitting and not doing anything to change myself. I keep telling myself I'll never turn out well and it's better to stay as I am.
Same here and now I'm past the point where it could have turned out okayish and want to kill myself.
just gonna post my ass here. If you want more just tell me
always more!!!
looks good! though you need better resolution
Haven't seen one of these in awhile, post a link and let's have fun.
a subact for today
It had a lot of really awesome tumblrs...Last I saw it was on the last page, now it's gone.
I just realized chastepuppygirl is gone. Did she delete it? It was one of the best.
Watch my transition from straight college student to trans porn star 💕
As far as I can tell, masculine lust is based around the hormone vasopressin, which is connected to decisiveness and sudden action, and feminine lust is connected to oxytocin, which is connected to acceptance and trust.
Weirdly vasopressin also suppresses urination, which is the real reason it's hard to pee with an erection.
I don't like jerking off like it's a race. I want a more low-T, feminine experience. So if I'm right about oxytocin, then how do I go about raising my levels?
In any case, what's another quick chemical way to get that feminine mindset and just swim in it for a few hours?
not sure about hormones, although estrogen would probably shift things around
you could try psychedelics
Yeah, I've noticed that difference as well, different types of arousal I mean.
What I see as male arousal typically causes me to just want to cum, it's like an instinct or basic need that must be full filled as soon as possible.
Female arousal however seems to be more prolonged and kind of relaxed, where the emphasis is less on reaching an orgasm but more on feeling as good as possible.
The aftermath is also different. Even if I don't cum masturbating while being aroused in a feminine way, I feel much more fulfilled and satisfied. When I masturbate and cum while being aroused in a masculine way however, it just feels good for a moment and then nothing, just emptiness.
Anyway, I would be interested in such a trick as well. The different forms of arousal just sort of happen by themselves, but if there was an easy way to intentionally trigger feminine lust that'd be perfect.
Low T is not the equivalent of high estrogen.Having low testosterone without estrogen will just make you depressed nonstop unless you're willing to take estrogen supplements/hormones.The only natural "low T" sex experience a guy can have is submissive gay sex.
And even then...it's not just hormones that define you biologically.
Real life actions affect our hormonal balance.Do things that encourage oxytocin production.Be affectionate and act feminine in a deep way.
But to answer your question I'd say you should try shrooms at a low dosage.When I trip after taking lower amounts I actually feel gay in a feminine way-not like a woman,mind you-but all I want to do is I AM A STUPID FUCKWIT AND I DESERVE TO DIE! around naked in the grass with another guy and let him rub his hands all over me. I can feel this primal "heat" radiate troughout my whole body.I also have quite a hard time mainatining a strong erection.If this isn't what you're describing then I don't know what is.Medium doses could potentially work even better.
-and no.It's not the porn messing with my head.I'm actually in the midst of curbing my porn addiction.I actually feel like all of my fetishes dissapear when I'm on magic mushrooms.
Hope it helped.
This Jessica Fappit vid is everything I've ever wanted in a sissy video. I don't care for genetic girls, and I respect transgirls too much to see them as anything other than girls. People who look like girls but identify as guys are what I really like, and this video is one of the few that really hits that demographic. I was wondering if anyone else has made/come across anything similar?
>rather than the more typical trans narrative of always knowing who you were "deep down".
That's more of a stereotypical (though still pretty common) narrative than a typical one. What is typical is feeling a form of unease or discomfort over being your birth sex, even if you don't identify it or the cause of it for a while. You can still very badly want to be female, or at least feel depressed and uncomfortable by not being female without consciously knowing why, without identifying as a girl/woman. For a lot of people it's more a matter of semantics or interpretation of gender theory as to whether they consider themselves to be "women on the inside" without physically being that way.
I mean, she is clearly trans with a fetish for sissification/feminisation. If you read her Tumblr you have posts about her dysphoria and how she just wants to be accepted a a normal girl and her support of trans right juxtaposed to posts about her being a feminised sissy slut or how much she loves trapping straight men. She's explicitly said the reason she does porn and does it exclusively as a bottom is to show that trans women can be women too, and don't have to be defined by their genitals.
To me it looks like she considers being a feminised male who's gone so far as to become a woman such that she's treated like a woman and is sexually desirable to men as a woman regardless as validating to her womanhood. As an MtF who also shares similar fetishes I can identify with how she feels a lot. Not being totally female and having to approximate it by feminising yourself is a bad thing, but by framing it in the context that it doesn't matter because you're a woman anyway, and making it actually a good thing, it becomes something to be enjoyed rather than something which makes you uncomfortable.
The clip in the OP is really satisfying to both the fetish and the dysphoria. Things like "the first time I heard an audio clip that said I was just a girl
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this girls a camwhore and does porn, she's just reading a script for money. >"all the changes in my breast were from feminization not hormones" grow up people.
i mean, duh, we know.
however, i'm sorry to be speaking for her, but i think she'd agree that she definitely shares this fetish. she's been vocal about her return to porn as Jessica Fappit being about doing it "her way" (hence strict bottom-only, etc.) the script is definitely manufactured but i think most content she produces, OP's video included, is from themes of stuff she gets off on herself.
So I just stumbled upon one of the best face filter programs I've used. The gender swap feature is really kind of amazing, especially for something thats free. Female me is pretty genuinely cute. Now we just need an app that will transform below the neck!
How do you save the photos?
How do you add more hair?
Donno about adding more hair, mines long anyway, but as for saving for me its under the extra links icon next to the social media links at the bottom of the screen
http://sissyplace.com/ anyone have any experience shopping from this site? It seems pretty legit though the prices on some of the items seem way below what I know them to be in other stores
Whenever I find a website like this the first thing I do is go down to my local store and buy one of those Visa gift cards. And then use that to buy something inexpensive off the site. Simplest and easiest way to test the waters to see if it's a legit site or if they're going to try and steal a credit card.
i ordered a bullet vibe and panties. cost under 20$ well see how they are.
it's all just stuff you can already buy on aliexpress etc


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not just that, if you switch ISPs, you're screwed. At least the ISPs here in Edmonton, you stop service, email is done. No forwarding, nothing. Hell, anybody subscribing to them can then claim the email address...
So, you can use apps "designed" for a pretty small screen with a touch-only UI, on a large monitor with a keyboard/mouse?
I suppose that's better than just sitting on the floor with the lights off, but not by much.
She definitely wouldn't hire him, as she knows his work ethic. And his porn habits.
Gee, wish we could force this to happen to cable tv providers and content...
Donald has been claiming that he, personally, is responsible for the increase in the stock market, since he was made the RNC candidate for President.
What you have to worry about is "How many hours can someone spend watching someone else play minecraft before bashing their skull in?"
Yes, it's always cheaper to take someone else's data and present it as your own.
This isn't google winning by doing something better.
You are mistaken. The monthly payments are necessary in order to keep your legs nice and healthy. The corporations can't be held responsible if you stop paying and something just happens to occur...
No, it's all fake. We have to wait for the real report that Trump personally is researching and then is going to write. It will be GLORIOUS! And not fake news.
You have to come back from fantasyland. She was your sister, and you roofied her... And the "other cousin" was one of her stuffed dolls.
Hulk smash!
He never road dinosaurs, because they didn't exist in his universe. They are basically the original "fake news" to him.
No, because a good sysadmin would like to eat something besides mac&cheese, and the company prefers to pay wages that would require you live with your parents rent free, and on your "special night" you can afford to spring for mac&cheese...for yourself.
Both Microsoft and Google are both going "Why the fuck are we not doing this?"
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A federal judge today struck down Kentucky's ban on recognizing marriages for same-sex couples performed in other jurisdictions. U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II said the ban violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantee to equal protection under the law.
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Loved this!!! Great mineral and rock collection. Kids had a blast and enjoyed so many of the displays.
Worth the visit.
A nice exhibit of replicas. Egypt is no longer loaning most of their artifacts so replicas have been constructed for traveling exhibits. All pieces can be seen in about two hours.
We are a relatively new family in town. Bought membership to enjoy bats and planetarium year round. Also excited to use reciprocal membership at Chicago museums! Layout is a bit confusing but looking forward to visiting when it warms up and grounds come to life.
Went there for the King Tut exhibit and enjoyed seeing all the items on display. Really liked the photos showing how haphazard the items were placed in the tombs. Reminded me of my garage. Asked a docent about some items and she shared how they were used for storing food for the afterlife. Thought the death rituals and their history...
Cranbrook is just a lovely place to visit. Spent a great afternoon at the science center with a friend and plan to return to check out the art museum. A nice place to spend an afternoon either with friends or alone.
Just enough to give you a lot of information about the King and Egyptian history. Worth going to see. My complaint is: Why are all the descriptive signs down low? Bending as I walk through the exhibit to read signs is holding people up. Sign should be higher then people can read over the heads of others.Plus a few of...
A nice museum close to home. The museum has many interactive exhibits to keep your kids engaged.
For those on a budget, one Friday evening a month has free admission (check their web site for details). Special exhibits cost extra but are usually interesting.
I met a friend here with our 2nd graders and it was just okay. Granted, we didn't get to see the Native American section (boys were done by this time), but even so...
Perhaps I just didn't know what to expect. The boys enjoyed the segment on the earth, and of course loved the ball gravity display. But it just...
Cranbrook is a great place to visit for curious minds. We visited the Science Museum as well as the Bat Zone nature conservancy. The Science Museum had plenty of cool things to keep our attention, from history to modern marvels. Our favorite attraction though was the Bat Zone. Seeing bats in real life and learning and understanding everything there is...
We have been here several times with my daughters 8 and 5 years old. They LOVE it and we do too! They do amazing things like paint with maggots and hold giant cockroaches from Madagascar- when else will you get a chance to do that. The BAT exhibit is amazing and we recently saw the Shark exhibit. They kids LOVED...
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Calculated magnetic field distribution for an electromagnetic wave impinging on a layered superconductor at a resonant angle. Field value is color-coded in the xz plane from large and negative (blue) to large and positive (red).
Excitation of surface Josephson plasma waves in layered superconductors
V. A. Yampol'skii, A. V. Kats, M. L. Nesterov, A. Yu. Nikitin, T. M. Slipchenko, Sergey Savel'ev, and Franco Nori
Phys. Rev. B 76, 224504 (2007)
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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning
Tony Karrer
Last week I presented a session at ASTD TechKnowledge entitled eLearning 2.0 - Applications and Implications. It could just as easily have been called Web 2.0 I discussed my experience from Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Moderation - On many Wiki software packages you can require approval for posting changes. Limit Authoring - You can control who is allowed to make changes. You can also limit what pages can be changed. Web 2.0
Detailed stats: Social networks dominate Internet usage, Australia still #1
Ross Dawson
However Nielsen's methodologies look only at website visits and don't the majority of time spent on Twitter, which is on web and mobile clients. Over time initiatives such as Google+ may change that.
Serendipity is at the heart of today's emerging society
Ross Dawson
Because I thought that maybe the audience wasn't familiar with it, so it would be a good change to share something truly different. Serendipity is for me a deeply meaningful word.
Changing thinking, changing systems
Harold Jarche
"The challenge of the coming century is to change the value system of society. Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 Tweet Here are some of the insights and observations that were shared on Twitter this past week. Vaclav Havel" via @BillMcKibben. "Intellectual property is an oxymoron.
The continuing devaluation of LinkedIn connections
Ross Dawson
Perhaps you do know them but have forgotten or they've changed their name. Enterprise 2.0 Reputation Social media Social networks Uncategorized Web 2.0How many LinkedIn requests are you getting? Very likely significantly more than you were getting just a few months ago. LinkedIn reached 100 million users in March. As one of the first 10,000 users, I early on saw the potential of a purely professional social network.
Jay Cross
Paragogy is not a recipe: its ideas can grow and change to suit the needs of the moment; as it has matured, it has become more of an "approach" than it is a set of set-in-stone principles. Informal Learning Web 2.0The Peeragogy Handbook. How to Use this Handbook.
The 9 kinds of context that will define contextual search
Ross Dawson
The act of typing words into a search bar is so ingrained in us that it will take a long time to change that behavior. Future of media Technology trends Web 2.0Yesterday I did the kick-off presentation and workshop at a strategy planning session of a major online media company.
Change or die
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
He travels the world, but increasingly delivers presentations and events in real time over the web. This is a total phase change. That is a lot different from companies that have drunk the Web 2.0 Change Informal LearningLX Briefing.
Where news website traffic comes from: Google vs Facebook
Ross Dawson
The landscape of traffic sources for news websites is continually changing, but Facebook is certainly increasing in the mix, and other social sites will continue to rise. Future of media Influence Social media Web 2.0
The 90-9-1 Collaboration Paradox: Org's Should Aim To Reverse It
Dan Pontefract
Gartner published some worldwide summative data in 2010 that outlined the perceived importance of traditional communication technologies and 2.0 They are the individuals who, at a 0% collaboration level, are simply 'aware' of the 2.0 collaboration 90-9-1 lurking organization web 2.0
On my 3rd Twitter birthday: 7 reasons Twitter is central to my life
Ross Dawson
Of course I have to use it well for this to happen, but it is unquestionably the most valuable tool I have for keeping abreast of the most important and interesting changes in the world. Social media Social networks Twitter Web 2.0Earlier today I noticed it's three years since my life on Twitter began. At the time I wrote about my belated entry to Twitterland.
Revisiting the future of PR
Ross Dawson
Yet the PR industry has not markedly prospered relative to adjacent industries, which have muscled in on the new work generated in a rapidly changing landscape. Future of media Influence Professional services Social media Uncategorized Web 2.0For many reasons PR (or perhaps rather what PR could be) is close to the center of my interests.
Study: Increased customer expectations are driving corporate uptake of social media
Ross Dawson
This happens to be highly aligned with my perspective that increased expectations are at the heart of social change, as expressed in my Transformation of Business framework. Marketing departments see themselves as understanding and responding to changes in customer expectations.
Blogging is fragmenting into multi-platform content creation – long live blogging!
Ross Dawson
I've been blogging since 2002, and seen many changes in the space over the last 9 years, from a massive surge over many years to a fragmentation into multiple forms: * 'Traditional' blogs; * Micro-blogs such as Twitter; and. Social media Social networks Social trends Web 2.
Futurist conversations: Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard on Open vs Closed Systems
Ross Dawson
Facebook has become more open over time due to customer pressure, however now that Google+ has provided a ready way to export personal profiles that changes the competitive landscape in social networks. * Future of business Social media Uncategorized Web 2.0
To Really Drive Enterprise 2.0 Forward We Need A Behaviour Change
Dan Pontefract
One key line struck me: Whether using new or traditional technologies, the key to digital transformation is re-envisioning and driving change in how the company operates. Enterprise 2.0 As McKinsey & Company points out in their 5 th annual Business and Web 2.0
Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary
Tony Karrer
Background Over the past six weeks, I've been leading a course: Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0 This course is designed to teach how to design and build collaborative learning experiences using Web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0 My only problem was that I didn't really have a way to change the class design significantly based on the result and I should have. Keywords: eLearning 2.0 , Web 2.0 , Collaborative Learning
The state of expert networks and the rising role of LinkedIn
Ross Dawson
TechCrunch reports that Job Change Identifier and Bullhorn are examples of services providing alerts when people leave companies. Financial services Social networks Web 2.0It is some years now since 'expert networks' have become a significant force, linking subject matter experts in science, technology, and business to clients, largely in funds management and finance, usually at very healthy hourly rates.
Keynote slides on The Transformation of Government
Ross Dawson
It is actually quite significant for an outsider like myself to be invited to speak at the event, let alone on a big picture view of a rapidly changing world. The conference is intended to be a landmark event, several months since the NSW government changed after 16 years of Labor incumbency, and anticipating potentially dramatic change in how the state government functions in the years ahead. If you are not attending, the entire conference will be live-streamed to the web.
What is possible: how the social enterprise drives differentiation
Ross Dawson
As such I gave a big picture view of how our increasingly networked world is changing organizations, spent some time on the vision of what a better-connected company can be and can achieve, and wrapped up with some of the realities to recognize in achieving the grand vision. I have written before about creating competitive differentiation with Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Social media Social networks Web 2.0
Social Media and the Future: Keynote slides at CIO Summit
Ross Dawson
To provide just a little context on the flow of my keynote: I begin with the imperative of adapting to accelerating external change, and how organizations are increasingly driven by technologies originated for consumer use, including social media. Enterprise 2.0 Future of work Keynote speaker Social media Social networks Web 2.0This afternoon I am giving a keynote on Social Media and the Future at the Australian CIO Summit in the Gold Coast.
Business+Web 2.0 from McKinsey
Jay Cross
McKinsey has an insightful new study on business and web 2.0 For the past three years , roughly 1,700 executives from around the world—across a range of industries and functional areas—have responded to a McKinsey survey on how organizations are using Web 2.0
Reconfiguring the world of business around the customer
Ross Dawson
The esteemed JP Rangaswami , who was at the very front of creating Enterprise 2.0 The second step is at the heart of what is changing in business today, with social media giving customers a voice, and an increasing proportion of companies engaging with that. Business relationships Enterprise 2.0 Future of business Uncategorized Web 2.0
Web 2.0 and Change Present Challenges to Many Learning Executives
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
Web 2.0 and Change Present Challenges to Many Learning Executives. Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning (and author of the definitive book on the topic), Web 2.0, Do you think that some of the advancements in technology—such as Web.
The many and varied risk factors in Facebook's IPO
Ross Dawson
Certain competitors, including Google, could use strong or dominant positions in one or more markets to gain competitive advantage against us in areas where we operate including: by integrating competing social networking platforms or features into products they control such as search engines, web browsers, or mobile device operating systems; by making acquisitions; or by making access to Facebook more difficult. Social media Social networks Uncategorized Web 2.0
Launch of Digital Sydney: Ideas, energy, success stories, and massive potential
Ross Dawson
Fortunately that has changed significantly over the last few years, with gradually increasing state government support for the digital sector, and with the freshly-elected government giving every indication of taking it yet further. Australia Social media Technology trends Web 2.0
Data: What the Fortune Global 100 are doing (and not doing) on social media
Ross Dawson
How well companies engage in social media is likely to be an increasingly accurate indicator of their ability to deal with accelerating change in the business environment. Social media Social networks Twitter Web 2.0A recent study from Burson-Marsteller looks in depth at what the Fortune Global 100 are currently doing on social media. Burson-Marsteller Global Social Media Check-Up 2012 from Burson-Marsteller.
Quality and Web 2.0
Tony Karrer
In a post by Will Richardson - Web 2.0 Andrew tells us - it's obvious that Web 2.0 As Michael Gorman tells us in Web 2.0: In Web 2.0, At the same time, one of the people commenting on Will's post said: To me Web 2.0 What's changed is that there now are incredibly easy to use tools that allow all of us to be content creators. I also believe that something else is changing - access to resources.
PushStart launches new startup accelerator program in Australia
Ross Dawson
The program is focused on identifying intelligent, coachable, passionate founders of scalable early-stage web and/or mobile tech startups and helping them to shape, grow and prepare their startups for follow-on funding if needed. PushStart is the the product of our learning from other game-changing accelerator programs (e.g. Australia Entrepreneurship Uncategorized Web 2.0The Australian startup scene continues to heat up.
Yelp leaps into the underserviced consumer review space in Australia
Ross Dawson
As I've noted before, for example in this interview I did on SkyNews , the shift to more visible reputations is a major trend, with two of the more prominent participants in Australia Word Of Mouth Online (which has recently changed its name from Word Of Mouth On the Web), which was founded in 2007, and Customer Underground , which is a bit over a year old. Australia Business relationships Reputation Social media Social networks Web 2.0
Insights into the evolution of Klout's algorithm
Ross Dawson
Klout today unveiled a major change to its algorithm and scores. Here are some thoughts on the changes. * It is valid to regularly change algorithms. Many people feel that if Klout keeps on changing its scoring mechanism (the last major change was in October 2011) it makes it hard to believe that they have any validity at all. The biggest complaint people had with Klout's last algorithm change is that most people's scores went down.
Stager, Logo and Web 2.0
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
Gary Stager offers an impressive assessment of the use of Web 2.-0 His criticisms are directed mostly toward David Warlick and others who are advocating the 'revolutionary' use of Web 2.0 I think his criticisms are effective against the School 2.0 And I think that it is because the School 2.0 However, there are some primary differences between Logo (and its variants) and the panoply of Web 2.0 tools, including: The Web 2.0 The Web 2.0
7 Shifts: The Future of Social Media and Internal Communications
Ross Dawson
From the 1990s, email fundamentally changed how most jobs were done. Based on the rapid emergence of social media and other new communication platforms, there are seven key aspects to how organisational communication will change. Ross Dawson is Chairman of international consulting firm Advanced Human Technologies and author of books including Implementing Enterprise 2.0. Enterprise 2.0 Future of business Social media Social networks Web 2.0
Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: SOA Versus Web 2.0?
John Hagel
At the end of last year, I posted on the relevance of Web 2.0 For those who have not been following my blog, I attempted my own definition of Web 2.0 Some of Dions key postings on this topic are "Running a business on Web-based software" , "Web 2.0
Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: What is Web 2.0?
John Hagel
Redux » What is Web 2.0? Listening to the wide-ranging conversations regarding the Web 2.0 Unfortunately, as the Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 Google AdSense is Web 2.0. Ofoto is Web 1.0; Flickr is Web 2.0." Web 2.0
What is the future of the IT department?
Ross Dawson
It needs to deal with the minutiae of technological change as well as the macrotrends shaping organizations and their shifting place in the global economy. How might the IT budget process change in future? Cloud Enterprise 2.0 Scenarios Technology trends Web 2.0
Web 2.0 - Consumer vs. Enterprise Use
Tony Karrer
that discusses the difference in how Web 2.0 I've talked about adoption of web 2.0 tools in the enterprise before in this blog: Adoption of Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 Revisited Enterprise 2.0 - What's the PU? Where Will the Change Come From? Facilitating Adoption of Web 2.0 Tools Emergence or Big System Web 2.0 This wave of change is going to happen by personal and group adoption.
Themes of the day: Consumerization of IT, Crowdsourcing for small business, Crowdsourcing in PR
Ross Dawson
The challenges for CIOs and IT departments of these changes are enormous. Cloud Crowdsourcing Enterprise 2.0 Future of work Keynote speaker SME Technology Social media Social networks Uncategorized Web 2.0These are frantically busy days, which is squeezing my ability to blog and capture some of the fascinating stuff flying by.
eLearning is not the answer
Jay Cross
We were going to change the world and pick up some dot-com riches while we did it. Face-to-face is unparalleled for changing behavior and rallying emotions. Business learning ROI Informal Learning Web 2.0eLearning is not a big cost-cutter.
Web 2.0 Tools in the Enterprise
Tony Karrer
I first saw Andrew McAffee's post on uses of Web 2.0 I'd also suggest that part of the reason that I always suggest that Wikis will get faster uptake than things like Blogs and Social Bookmarking is that Wikis can be a better replacement for something else without much behavior change. It's just a really easy way for a group of people to put up web pages. approaches inside of corporations - quite good at identifying some different patterns.


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