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15 RV Parks near Bonner, Montana
Clinton, Montana 8.05 miles SW
Bonner-West Riverside, Montana 12.2 miles W
East Missoula, Montana 14.94 miles W
Missoula, Montana 19.49 miles W
Orchard Homes, Montana 19.88 miles W
Bonner Bonner, Montana 59823 (map) | (406) 444-3750
Sites: 12 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 2 Reviews
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Nov 2012 - $12.00
This is our favorite fishing access site in Montana. The view is awesome. Sometimes a bit of road noise but not bad. Always deer. The parking lot at one end cuts traffic way down. I usually stay in # 11 at the end - 7 on the road
Jun 2009 - $7.00
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks campground and boat access on Blackfoot River 36 miles E of Bonner. Most sites right on river. Our 36' 5th wheel would "fit" on 5 of the 12 sites. Great for fishing and launching rafts or boats. Pit toilets, water and garbage facilities. Lots of shade trees. Downside - traffic, noise and dust from fishermen and rafters, especially on weekends. But ranger told us this was changing with a new parking lot and boat launch to be built at one end of park so campground would be more isolated from boat traffic. - mvano
13555 Turah Rd Clinton, Montana 59825 (map) | (406) 258-9773
Sites: 24 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 9 Reviews
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Sep 2016 - $33.00
We stayed at the Turah RV Park overnight after leaving Yellowstone NP. It's an easy on and off I-90. The park offers a very well stocked grocery store. Our site was a long pull thru which allowed us to keep the truck hooked up to the trailer. The sites are gravel and the roads are asphalt. The interior roads are easily navigated. There are many older apparently seasonal RVs in the park. The park could use a bit more maintenance, especially litter clean-up. There were some tripping hazards on our site - holes and filled in fire rings of which to be aware. However, that being said, the park met our needs for location and easy access. - 15243
Aug 2016 - $33.00
Sites are long but very narrow. The 50 amp electric was good. Wifi OK. We had a good site, quiet. The park is close to Missoula. Most of the campers are long term, living in very old, run-down RVs, lots of junk around. Although it worked well for us, wouldn't return. - John and Carol
Aug 2016 - $30.00
First time in 15 years of fulltiming that I have been given a Veterans discount, $5 at that. 50 amp water sewer all good and convenient to each other, Wifi did not connect. AT&T woked fine. This is basically a park for regulars with several sites for travelers. It is convenient to Missoula. The lady at check in was very nice. There is a small store on site. We stayed here in a 40 ft motorhome and would return. - walt66
29895 Bonita Station Rd Clinton, Montana 59825 (map) | (406) 542-5500
Sites: 26 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 11 Reviews
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May 2017 - $30.00
Always nice to stay in the state park. With power and water for $30 I would stay here again. Very friendly camp host. What bothered me the most about this site was the most annoying trainwistle, all through the night!. Nice walking trails in the area, river side and very spacious sites! Thank you for letting us stay here! - CCMK
Jul 2016 - $15.00
This was my first camp here at Beavertail Hill State Park and turned out to be more than I expected. It looks like they upgraded the campground recently as the 50 amp electric pedestal looked new. The bathrooms are clean vault toilets. No showers are available here. Also water is available, but not at the sites, unless you are lucky. Site 006 was within my hose reach and I was able to connect when I needed a refill of my freshwater tank. Campsites are large with plenty of trees for some privacy. A few campsites are tight for larger RV's. My fifth wheel is 32' and a little tight on site 006 where I parked, but doable. The big negative here for RV's is there isn't a Dump for your tanks. I went to Bretz's RV in Missoula. They have a free dump. Also if you don't like train noise, there are a few trains passing near here throughout the day. While not too close, you can hear it. - RetiredVagabond
Jul 2016 - $24.00
We arrived on a Thursday without reservations. There were several sites available that would accommodate our 38 foot motorhome. We used a back in that was stated as 25 foot. Had plenty of room for toad also in great site by the river. All sites are electric, level, gravel, some shade, half big rig usable, basically quiet except for occasional train nearby. Enjoyed the setting, helpful host, proximity to Missoula, mile trail and river to float. No dump available and limited water. Overall, a pleasant experience! See why the locals love this park. Check website for availability and there are six walk up sites but once there, occupant can use for 14 days. - RJourney
81 Rock Creek Rd Clinton, Montana 59825 (map) | (406) 825-3183
Sites: 60? | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 7 Reviews
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Aug 2016 - $35.00
The best way to summarize this campground is "funky." The full-hookup sites are in an open field and close together. They look to be mostly long-term stays. We chose to stay in the electric/water sites that are not as closely spaced. There is a dump station. About five of these sites are in the open with 30 amp electric. Most are in a wooded area with very unlevel sites with only 20 amp service. You check in at the restaurant. The ladies there were very nice but had no clue of 20 versus 30 amp power. We made reservations, but that was not really necessary, as there were many spaces available. Since we were in the field area, we were able to get satellite with our roof-top dish. Verizon signal was amazingly strong and fast. They do have Internet that was intermediate, sometimes fast and sometimes off. It is far enough away from the Interstate that there was not a lot of traffic noise, but there are train tracks with some train noise, but not bad. Overall it was a pretty quiet, restful stay. This was an OK place to spend the night, but we might try someplace closer in to Missoula. - TheJim
Jul 2012 - $29.00
What a disappointment this park was for us. Check in was awkward as the waitress in the restaurant had to check us in. There are no rules in this park, and no one onsite to assist when people get loud at night. There are no real RV sites. Everyone just parks helter skelter because it is a big meadow with only grass sites. If you are lucky the people who pull in next to you will give you room to walk beside your RV. You can only run one a/c even when it is 100° outside. They do not disclose this fact when you make reservations, or even when you check in. They inform you after you have paid and are connected. Being assured we could use our satellite in the spot we were assigned, turned out to be incorrect. The people next to us were in the same situation. There is no cable, so if you enjoy hearing what's happening in the world, don't stay here. We ate at the restaurant once and it was so bad we never went back. On a positive note, the hummingbirds are fun to watch. We pray that we will never, ever have to even think about staying here again. - hcrv11
Jun 2012 - $26.00
Very peaceful and quiet place to stay. Owners very friendly. Restrooms, showers and laundry room are clean. Restaurant meals are excellent. We stayed here for a month so rate was cheaper. Would stay here again. - stella fouche
1611 Drummond Frontage Rd Clinton, Montana 59825 (map) | (406) 825-9950
Sites: 46 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 26 Reviews
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Aug 2016 - $30.00
Nice park on the Clark Fork River, but also right on I90 and by the train. Shaded, spacious sites, easy access, good for an overnighter, would be much better, but the noise at this location is significant. - sam and hope
Jun 2016 - $31.00
The folks working the place were very nice and helpful. We knew about the negatives before staying here. There are no sewer hookups because they are near the river, however there is a dump station. A problem is the restrooms are located only at the main building. So, if you are at the other end of the campground, you have a looong walk! The site was level with grass between the actual sites. There is a railroad track across the river and it is active with train horns. We didn't really hear any horns at night though. In June, the Clark Fork river had a great deal of moss in it - that was disappointing. I don't think we would stay here again unless it was only one or two nights. If you have a diesel rig, know that the nearest station is approx 15 miles away! - marvls
Oct 2015 - $45.00
Beautiful campground. Right by the river. It's in a little valley and since they are so close to the Clark Fork River they don't have sewer hookups. The people are so friendly and the park is lovely!!! - KEG
5001 N Placid Lake Rd Seeley Lake, Montana 59868 (map) | (406) 677-6804
Sites: 40 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 3 Reviews
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Sep 2016 - $24.00
Sites are pretty large, a little hard to back into some due to large rocks. Lots of trees for shade, bathrooms & showers were clean. There were pit toilets scattered throughout also and it was the cleanest pit toilet I have ever been in! NO smell or flies. Absolutely spotless! I was impressed. The camp hosts were very friendly and helpful. Pretty, quiet campground. I would definitely return. - mntraveler
Jul 2016 - $34.00
Wooded campground on rolling terrain by a lake, very popular with boaters (not so much for fishing - lots of noisy, fast boats!) Many sites close together, little privacy, but shade from the pine woods; one loop has electric sites (20/30/50 amp) - not many can fit rigs larger than 25'. This park is 3 miles off the main road, on a packed-dirt road (may be slippery in wet weather); road noise is minimal, especially at night. It's a busy place & seems popular with Missoula-area residents on weekends. There is a camp host in residence, and bathhouse facilities seemed pretty clean despite heavy use. The pit toilet we used was very clean & not smelly. Beautiful location. - PokyRVer
Sep 2014 - $28.00
This is a very nice state park campground on Placid Lake, about 3 miles south of the town of Seeley Lake. There are 40 sites; 15 have have electrical service. It is fairly tight so I wouldn't recommend it for a rig over 35 feet total length. Water is available at a central location. The park is paved, but the three mile road into the park is gravel. There is a boat ramp/dock available. Boat trailer parking is available. There is a new modern restroom and shower facility. There is a charge for showers. Firewood and ice is available from the camp host. The rate is $28 per night for non residents, $20 for Montana residents. Reservations can be made at the Montana State Park web site. There is Verizon 4G phone and data coverage in the Park. - Nomad 1
2329 Hwy 83 N Seeley Lake, Montana 59868 (map) | (406) 677-6804
Sites: 23 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 3 Reviews
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Jul 2016 - $34.00
This is a very nice State Park. Small, only about 22 sites. We have a 35' MH and anything much bigger would have a hard time in this park. All of the sites are well separated with trees around them. Several of the sites overlook the lake and there are walking trails from the campsite along the lakeshore. The showers were clean and hot. We were traveling through to Glacier, but this would be a nice park to stay at for a few days. - cagvc
Jul 2016 - $34.00
Beautiful small campground (only about 20 sites) in pine woods above the shore of a long, narrow lake in the mountains. The main part of the campground forms a circle around the newer bathhouse. (With individual shower rooms - nice!) About half the sites have electric hookups, including some of the lakeside sites. There is a camp host in residence. LOTS of road noise from Rte 83, especially in the sites nearest the road - the main drawback. Obstacles alongside the campground road make backing longer rigs into sites a challenge. (There is one pullthru site, on the road side.) Two small lakeside sites suitable for very small rigs are separate from the rest of the campground. Electric posts seemed relatively new. Views of the lake are beautiful, and there are several informal paths down to the somewhat marshy shoreline. A separate part of the state park offers a boat launch, swimming beach & picnic area; there is a trail between it and the campground. Showers, firewood & ice available - bring lots of quarters!! - PokyRVer
Jun 2016 - $25.00
Coin op showers and lots of traffic. State controlled, so fire restrictions were imposed. - kevin mccaulley
Missoula, Montana (map) | (406) 549-0881
Sites: 274 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 117 Reviews
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Jun 2017 - $57.00
A very nice park. Sites have room between them and the landscaping is lovely. The entire property is very clean and the staff, extremely nice. Nice pool, game room, putt-putt and playground. Roads are easy to navigate. Property is quiet. Good AT&T service. Walking distance to Costco and several other stores. We would differently stay here again. A very nice visit. - atlantafamilyof4
Oct 2016 - $52.00
This is a well maintained campground with helpful staff at check in. Interior roads are paved and big rig access was average. Our level gravel pull through pad was spacious, and we had a separate space to park our towed, there was a fire ring and picnic table as well. The bathrooms were modern and clean as was the laundry. Pet friendly with 3 dog walk areas and pick up bags. Wifi and AT&T were both good. We only stayed for one night so I can't comment on food stores or restaurants close by. We would stay here again, it's a quiet location and perfect for us as a one night stopover. - tobyjug
Sep 2016 - $50.00
This park seems well managed and maintained. We opted for a deluxe pull thru site which is essentially two older sites made into one that gives you an extra space to park your toad or tow vehicle. The driveway are paved and easy to navigate. The pad is gravel with grass, a picnic table and fire ring. The utilities were convenient and worked well. The WiFi is the best we have experienced to date. We are able to not only able to do email but we could also watch short videos if we wanted. The staff is helpful and friendly. - 2WArvers
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Sites: 50 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 0 Reviews
5640 Boy Scout Road Seeley Lake, Montana 59868 (map) | (406) 677-2233
Sites: 29 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 1 Reviews
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Aug 2015 - $10.00
This is a older National Forest Service Park. There are 29 sites, 3 across from the beach. There is a boat ramp and two beaches. Although there are no "hook-ups", there is water available at various spots throughout the campground. There are 4 vault toilets and two flush toilets, one in the center of the campground and the second in the beach/day use area. The campsites are large, mostly wooded, and private. There are a number of sites that have full sun, some with partial shade and some full shade. Each site had an asphalt pad, picnic table and fire ring. The grounds have been neglected for several years which is why I gave an "8" rating but there is a new Campground Director who is working on improving all of the campgrounds/recreation sites in the district. I would expect lots of maintenance to be done this fall and next spring. The sites are clean as are the vaults and restrooms. - J Corsetti


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Need to win: Pittsburgh
Baltimore could also be problematic for the Broncos. Really, any team ahead of them in current seeding is a threat.
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Need to win: New York
The key to this game is New England having something to play for in Week 17 against Miami. Right now, New England and Oakland are vying for the No. 1 seed, and a Jets win would put off that resolution until Week 17, which would force New England to play their starters against Miami.
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Need to win: Oakland
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Need to win: Jacksonville
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The "J"am "O"ur "S"oldiers "H"ome (Josh) BENEFIT is being held in memory of the late Sgt Joshua A. Tomlinson K.I.A. 5-18-10 and the late Joshua B. Maddin K.I.A. 12-6-06
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Yesterday, we celebrated Aidan's first week of life together by taking him for a long forest walk in his new Stokke stroller and it was just the greatest little adventure (photo here and here). We ended up in two cafes, grabbed lunch, and went back home after a few hours to prepare for visitors who came by last night including Thorsten's parents. This week, we have a baby photo shoot and I can't wait to show you those once they're ready – we've hired this very special local photographer to work with us and simply can't wait to capture these cherished moments during the few few weeks of his life because really, you can never buy back this time again, can you?
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In between our appointments and visits (my midwife also comes daily), we are resting as much as possible and enjoying our son so so SO much. I instantly bonded with him and feel really close – like he's always been here with us. I love his expressions, big eyes, button nose and how sweet he is in general. It's also wonderful that we have him on a feeding schedule so he only wakes up at night around 3:30 to be fed and then he's back to sleep until 6 or 7 and we lay around and get cozy and read, talk, eat, etc. in bed until my midwife comes by which is usually around 11. It's such a carefree little schedule to be in our baby cocoon with him. We enjoy all of this cuddle time because it's really so precious and lasts only so long before our schedules no longer allow for us to linger in bed until lunch time each day! It's truly been the best week of our life.
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Shelby Walk-Off HR Lifts Baseball to Win
The game looked to be over well before Shelby?s heroics as UK held a commanding 9-2 lead when starting pitcher Aaron Tennyson turned the ball over with one out in the eighth. However, the Wildcat bullpen allowed six hits and seven Gamecocks crossed the plate to tie it.
Chris Rusin became the fifth UK pitcher of the inning when he entered a tie game with two outs. He promptly got Reese Havens to strikeout and followed that with three perfect innings, retiring all 10 men he faced to improve to 4-0 on the year. It was just the second appearance in conference play for Rusin, a true freshman.
The home run by Shelby allowed the Wildcats to escape a second consecutive blown lead on a Friday night. Last week, UK lost a 9-4 lead in the ninth at Arkansas and dropped a 10-9 decision.
With the win, Kentucky (28-10, 9-7 SEC) became the first team to beat seventh-ranked South Carolina (30-9, 11-5 SEC) on a Friday night this year. The Wildcats go for the series victory on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and will send senior lefty Craig Snipp (4-3, 3.03) to the hill. The Gamecocks counter with southpaw Forrest Beverly (5-2, 5.10).
Kentucky built an early lead the same way it won the game, with home runs. Collin Cowgill blasted his ninth of the year in the first for a 1-0 UK lead and Sean Coughlin hit a mammoth shot in the third that made it 4-0. It was the ninth homer of the year for each.
The Wildcats added two runs in the fifth, one in the sixth and two more in the seventh to stretch their lead to 9-2. It could have been worse as Kentucky stranded 11 runners in the ballgame.
Meanwhile, USC could only tag Tennyson for single runs in the third and fourth. The senior from Milan, Mich., was brilliant, allowing only three runs on six hits to the conference?s top hitting team, but earned his fifth straight no-decision.
But the star of the game was Shelby, who went 3-for-3 with an RBI single, a double and the game-winning home run. For good measure, he added a pair of sacrifice bunts that helped the Wildcats score in both the fifth and seventh innings.
Kentucky had a chance to end it in the ninth, loading the bases against reliever Wynn Pelzer. Shelby had walked to lead off the inning, but was caught stealing for the second out. Ryan Wilkes then singled and Shaun Lehmann was hit by a pitch. DeJesus drew a walk to bring up Cowgill, who struck out to end the inning.
Pelzer was charged with the loss, his first this year as he fell to 3-1 after allowing one run on two hits. Shelby single-handedly snapped Pelzer?s 19-inning shutout streak in SEC play.
The game was delayed for one hour by heavy rain in the area and did not finish until well past 11 p.m.


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I just took my blitz nur spec r off of my car. Its been used for the last 3 or so years and has around 40,000 miles on it. It's obviously dirty from being under my car for that long but im going to clean it up. Its in great shape with very minor marks or scratches on it. I also have the silencer.
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U.S. Smartphone Market: Blackberry leads, Google gains
Analysis by comScore indicates that the Blackberry from RIM is clearly number one in U.S. smartphone sales.
Of the 45.4 million U.S. smartphone owners, according to comScore research, 42.1% have a Blackberry. Apple's iPhone is at second place with 25.4%, followed by Microsoft devices at 15.1%. Google's Android phones lag behind with 9.0% and Palm devices are at 5.4% of the market.
In comparing the three-month periods of December 2009 through February 2010 and September through November 2009, comScore noticed a 21% increase in smartphone ownership. Blackberry maker Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) saw an increase of 1.3% over these periods as their share of this strong showing, while Apple iPhones stagnated and Microsoft and Palm actually dropped. The largest jump came from smartphone newcomer Google, which increased by 5.2% over the two periods. Assessment by the market researchers in their press release: "Google's Android platform continues to see rapid gains in market share as more Android-compatible devices are introduced to the market."
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Two trojans in the wild are targeting Linux machines.
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Millions of devices that use Samba Server are vulnerable to attacks.
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by Kate Heyhoe
Makes about 3 cups
8 to 10 fresh tomatillos
(about 12 ounces); husks removed; rinsed
1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes
1/2 onion, diced
4 cloves garlic
1 to 2 serrano chiles (or jalapeños)
1/4 cup packed fresh cilantro
Salt to taste
In a medium saucepan, bring tomatillos, tomatoes, onion, garlic and chiles to a boil. Cover and simmer on low until tomatillos are soft, about 15 minutes. Stir in cilantro. Allow mixture to cool slightly, then blend in a blender until fairly smooth (don't worry about some chunks or seeds, they add texture). Add salt to taste. Serve at room temperature.
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Nov. 11, 2012
With today's win, Michigan improved to 21-9-1 in the all-time series against Pittsburgh.
The 16-15 decision is U-M closest margin of victory since defeating Minnesota 17-16 during the 2008-09 season. The Wolverines lost a pair of one-point duals -- to Bloomsburg and American -- at the Journeymen Northeast Duals in 2009-10.
Four Wolverine starters remain undefeated on the season. Sophomore/freshman Camryn Jackson (141 pounds), senior/junior Eric Grajales (149) and senior/junior Dan Yates (174) are all 3-0, while junior/sophomore Jake Salazar (157) is 2-0.
Senior/junior Dan Yates has scored bonus points in all three matches this season, boasting a pin and two major decisions.
Michigan Head Coach Joe McFarland
On the team win ... "We knew coming in that Pitt's got a scrappy team. They've got a lot of tough Pennsylvania kids who know how to wrestle and are good on the mat. We did what we needed to do today to get a win. It wasn't exactly how we would have liked, but we're going to take it, just like I'm sure Brady [Hoke] took that win yesterday. I like the fact that we toughed it out. Sometimes you find yourself in tough situations. That's a sign of some character on your team that you're able to dig down deep and pull out a win."
On the three overtime losses ... "I thought we could have won all three. We had those guys right where we wanted them. We had the momentum going into two of them, and we didn't capitalize on it. That's disappointing. But we're going to keep getting better for it. We've been working hard. When you do all the work and don't get your hand raised... you've got to dig down deep."
On Camryn Jackson's comeback win ... "He found himself down, probably didn't do a great job underneath early on, but was able to get out, get to his feet and really gas that guy. He pushed the pace hard. He's been doing a really good job with that; he did the same thing up at Central Michigan. He won because he outhustled that kid. You can win a lot of big matches with hustle, determination and preparation. He keeps winning. He dug out a tough win today."
On Dan Yates' dual-deciding bonus point ... "He scored a lot of takedowns. To me, that's exciting wrestling -- when you can dominant your opponent like that. He was working hard to get some back points, but that kid was pretty savvy on the mat. It was good to see our captain do that. We see that every day in the practice room from him. Some of our young guys need to continue to pay attention to that, so that when you step on the mat, that's how you compete."
U-M Senior/Junior Captain Dan Yates
On wrestling in his first match since being named team captain ... "It means a lot to step out there after being named a captain and having the opportunity to represent Michigan. It was huge to go out there and do it the right way. We've been talking all year about wrestling an exciting style for the crowd. I felt like I was able to do that today."
On earning the major decision at 174 pounds ... "I knew I had to get that bonus point. I wanted a tech, but when I didn't get the near fall, I focused on just attacking nonstop to overwhelm him to the point where he just quit. He put his head down and just kind of gave up."
On the Wolverines' team performance ... "Our guys are pushing and going in the right direction. Obviously there's a lot more that we need to do, but fortunately it's still early in the season and we have the time to work on it. We're talking about spending each second that we have in the wrestling room really focused on pushing ourselves past exhaustion. You could see in some of those overtime matches that our guys didn't quite have that last push that they needed. We will work hard to fix that."
U-M Sophomore/Freshman Camryn Jackson
On his comeback win at 141 pounds ... "I was just really focused on getting out of there from bottom. It was tough, but once I got back to my feet, I knew I had to pick up the pace, go after it and score. I heard the crowd. I loved that. That got me pumped up in the third period. Once I got into that rhythm, I wasn't really aware of what was going on as much as what I had to do. I just knew that I had to score and keep scoring, and I knew that I needed some back points at the end. But I'll be honest, I didn't know if I had won or lost when the match ended."
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|Alice Walker; Alice Walker
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Steven Spielberg; Whoopi Goldberg; Danny Glover; Oprah Winfrey; Alice Walker; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Warner Home Video (Firm)
|0790729717 9780790729718
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|Closed captioned. Dialogue in English, with optional French soundtrack, and optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.
|Based on the novel by Alice Walker.
Videodisc release of the 1985 motion picture by Warner Brothers.
Dolby digital surround ; widescreen letterbox format; double-sided disc.
Special features: interactive menus; scene access; production notes; 2 theatrical trailers.
Special features: cast; production notes; awards; theatrical trailers; film flash.
|Music, Quincy Jones ; film editor, Michael Kahn ; production designer, G. Michael Riva ; director of photography, Allen Daviau ; executive producers, Jon Peters, Peter Gruber ; producers, Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Quincy Jones ; screenplay, Menno Meyjes ; director, Steven Spielberg.
|Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Oprah Winfrey.
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|MPAA rating: PG-13.; CHV rating: 14A.
|1 videodisc (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An uneducated woman living in the rural American south who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.
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[NWSL 2014 COUNTDOWN] After floundering for much of the 2013 season, the Seattle Reign FC has gone all out to rebuild its roster. Its latest signing: Japanese national team midfielder Nahomi Kawasumi on loan from champion INAC Kobe Leonessa of Japan's Nadeshiko League.
NWSL: 2014 Preseason Schedule
Kawasumi was named the 2013 Nadeshiko League MVP,
was the league's second leading scorer behind American teammate Bev Goebel, who has also joined Seattle. She helped lead INAC to three straight league
titles and has been on the league's Best XI roster four years in a row.
She was also a member of the Japan national team that won the 2011 Women's World Cup and took silver in
the 2012 Olympic Games.
"Naho is a world-class talent who will add a different dimension to our front line in the coming season," Seattle general manager and head coach Laura Harvey said. "She is a proven winner in both league and international play and will bring that important mentality and experience to our club."
Besides Kawasumi and Goebel, the Reign acquired U.S. star Sydney Leroux, Canadian vet Carmelina Moscato and
Scottish international Amy Little, among others. It will also have Hope Solo and Megan
Rapinoe for the full season.
RED STARS OPEN AT TOYOTA PARK. The Chicago Red Stars' season opener will be paired with a Fire match in a
doubleheader at Toyota Park.
NWSL: 2014 Regular-Season Schedule
Following the April 19 MLS match between Chicago and New England, the Red Stars will host 2013 regular-season champion Western New York Flash. The MLS game will kick off at 3 p.m. CT, and the NWSL
match is scheduled to start at approximately 5:45 p.m.
The Red Stars previously used Toyota Park as a home stadium in 2009 and 2010 as a member of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS).
Its regular home is the Village of Lisle-Benedictine Sports Complex, which is just outside the city limits.
"This is something we've been dreaming about since the Red Stars
were founded," said Red Stars general manager Alyse LaHue. "It is really special for Chicago sports fans to see a men's and women's team
collaborating on an initiative like this. We thank the Chicago Fire for welcoming us into their home and are excited about future possibilities to come."


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My young kids will eat parsnips in this dish! Everyone who tastes it loves the rich, slightly smoky flavor. —Jim Rude, Janesville, Wisconsin
Recommended: 43 Ways to Make Classic Irish Food at Home
- 2 medium Yukon Gold potatoes
- 4 small red potatoes
- 3 medium parsnips, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 Jones Dairy Farm Dry-Aged Bacon strips, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
- 1/2 cup shredded Havarti cheese
- 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream, warmed
- 1 tablespoon minced chives
- 2 tablespoons crumbled blue cheese
- Scrub potatoes and cut into 1-in. pieces; place in a large bowl. Add the parsnips, bacon, butter, salt, seasoned salt and pepper; toss to coat.
- Transfer to a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Bake at 425° for 40-45 minutes or until parsnips are tender, stirring once.
- In a large bowl, mash the potato mixture with Havarti cheese, Parmesan cheese, cream and chives. Stir in blue cheese. Yield: 6 servings.
Originally published as Cheese & Parsnip Mashed Potatoes in Taste of Home June/July 2009, p62
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"Delicious! I loved this side dish served with the pork Tenderloin Braids in the picture. The only changes I made were to peel the Yukon Golds and to substitute feta for the blue cheese."
Reviewed Nov. 11, 2014
"I wanted to like the directions for these potatoes I really did, I tried to follow them exactly as written twice and the potatoes and parsnips never got cooked enough to make good mashed potatoes. However, change the prep a bit and this mashed potato dish is HEAVEN! I cut the potatoes and parsnips and boil them until parsnips are tender about 20 minutes. Cook your bacon while they boil. Once the bacon is cooked you can crumble it instead of cutting. Then mash with all ingredients except blue cheese and bacon. Stir those in at the end."


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A genuine antique English brass hanging or standing box which was probably used for candles or possibly wax tapers or spills. The colour is excellent both inside and out. It is also in excellent all round original condition and free from any cracks, repairs or damage of any kind. It has a serpentine shape to the front which is an attractive feature. It measures 5 inches in height excluding the loop and 6.25 inches in width and 3 inches in depth.


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was born in Russia. He is the chief designer of the Stanislavsky Opera since 1993. He has designed more than 100 operas for the Stansilavsky and other opera houses in Russia and abroad including Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky), May Night (Rimsky-Korsakov), Cosi fan tutte (Mozart), La traviata, Ernani (Verdi), Carmen (Bizet) and many others as well as numerous ballets including Spartacus, Giselle, Swan Lake and others. This is his first work at the Israeli Opera.


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I remember riding our "spider bikes" all over town.
Making a ramp so that we could jump our bikes like Evil Kneveil.
Sticking my hand in the Coke bin where the ice cold cokes were in the ice and water, and my hand being so cold that it hurt...
Checking out all of the phone bootes for money, and occasionaly finding a nickel, a dime and on a really good day...a quarter
Looking for glass bottles so that we could redeem them for 2 cents and getting enough to buy candy bars ans bubble gum
Getting stopped by a cop when we walked across town with our single shot shotguns broke open on our shoulder and getting asked if we saw anything worth shooting...
spending all of my money for 16 guage shells at the local gas station so I could go squirrel/rabbit/quail hunting.
getting to stay up late to watch the astronauts walk on the moon...
bringing 25 cents for "milk money" to school once a week for milk.
watching cartoons on Saturday morning before my parents got out of bed
and you knew it was late, when the tv programs went off and that Indian head appeared on the screen


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The accolades for Robert Redford are piling up this winter.
Redford will receive the American Riviera Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, on Feb. 7. The award, according to Hitfix, is given to a person "who has had a strong influence on American cinema."
Tough to argue with that assessment, considering not only Redford's decades-long career as an actor and director — as well as the founder of the Sundance Institute, which has incubated hundreds of independent films and filmmakers.
The honor also has a fortuitous timing. The Santa Barbara event is a regular campaign stop for actors and filmmakers in the running for an Oscar. (Last year's American Riviera Award went to Quentin Tarantino, who at the time was campaigning for "Django Unchained.")


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Journalists are as self involved as anyone else. Sometimes more so.
Sometimes a lot more so.
Sometimes so much so that every interaction they have with anything remotely resembling the topic they cover or one that it genuinely newsworthy seems like a genuine human interest story with a more-than-usually-personal twist because the person telling the story is actually the writer writing it!
In the baddest of the bad old days of journalism that tendency was beaten out of young reporters along with their optimism, sense of mission, honesty, integrity and any hope for redemption.
In exchange they would have gained an inconsequential career as an anonymous scribbler 12 to 14 hours per day for about what you'd pay a journeyman plumber.
Those days are over, for good and bad. Which is why we know Jared Keller, a writer and editor at The Atlantic was robbed last night of his cash and his Droid Incredible smart phone.
He believed the story of how he used the track-me function in Android to find the phone was news worthy, mainly because the police couldn't do it for him.
After he reported the crime the cops told him to get the phone's unique ID number from Verizon so the investigators could go to court and get a court order that would order Verizon to track the stolen smartphone's ID number and tell the cops where it was.
The process would take "two or three days, cost several hundred dollars and work only if the phone is actually on."
"To be frank, this may just be a giant waste of your time," said the officer.
Keller eventually did use Android's phone-home feature, which sent him a nice map showing the phone was somewhere in his apartment complex.
Not close enough for the cops, who would have had to search the whole building, near which there had been several other robberies that night. Not worth their effort to retrieve one phone.
So Keller didn't get his phone back and the cops didn't solve the case and the whole thing sounds like a stupid waste of time because the cops couldn't get the information they needed and Verizon wouldn't give it up and when Keller got the information on his own using an app that gave a much closer approximation than even Verizon could have gotten without using the exact same feature on Keller's phone, Keller still didn't get his phone back.
The reason this is actually a good-news story is that, at least when it comes to investigating petty crimes and chasing petty criminals, the cops know the rules about illegal search and seizure of digital property and about illegally tracing the location of someone using the GPS function in their phone.
They also know the procedure for how to get a search warrant, what judge to go to, how much time and money it will cost and whether it's worth the effort at all – to show they'd done it before when it actually did seem to be worth the effort, and went through the process rather than taking shortcuts they thought they had a right to take, cheating to avoid limits on their power, or surreptitiously intimidating cell phone companies into giving them information they shouldn't have, as the FBI and possibly NSA and DHS have done in the past.
It's a little pathetic how good it feels to know that at least someone follows rules designed to protect someone other than themselves.


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The attempted rally in gold during the Far East trading session certainly blew out the open interest by the London open as it was obvious the HFT boyz were out and about. The gold price got sold down a bit once London began to trade, and the low price tick came at 1 p.m. GMT right on the button, and 20 minutes before the Comex open in New York.
The subsequent rally ran into obvious opposition, and the vertical price spike about 10:20 a.m. EST got dealt with in the usual manner. From that high, the gold price got sold down until shortly after 2 p.m. in electronic trading, and the smallish rally off that low didn't amount to much.
The CME recorded the low and high ticks at $1,277.30 and $1,293.80 in the December contract.
Although the gold price traded in a fairly tight price range, it only did so because it was being micromanaged; much like it is everyday. But some days are more obvious than others.
Gold finished the Thursday session in New York at $1,287.30 spot, which was up an even $5.00 from Wednesday's close. Net volume of 137,000 contracts was 30% higher than it was on Wednesday, and although not heavy, it wasn't exactly light, either.
Here's the New York Spot Gold [Bid] chart on its own so you can see the price action in North America in much more detail.
Silver rallied a bit in Far East trading on their Thursday, and then faded into the 10:20 a.m. price spike visible on the chart below. Silver's price spike wasn't anywhere near as impressive as the one for gold, and silver traded quietly after that into the close of electronic trading.
Since silver traded in such a tight price range yesterday, the highs and lows aren't worth mentioning.
Silver closed yesterday at $20.745 spot, up 13.5 cents from Wednesday. Once again, gross volume was very heavy, but net volume was 'only' 38,000 contracts, down 10% from Wednesday's net volume figures.
Platinum jumped up fifteen bucks in the first two hours of trading in the Far East on their Thursday. After that it chopped sideways. The two subsequent rally attempts during Comex trading hours in New York yesterday weren't allowed to go anywhere. Palladium rallied five bucks early on, and then traded flat for the rest of the day. Here are the charts.
The dollar index closed on Wednesday afternoon in New York at 80.80, and then climbed to its 81.19 high around 11:20 a.m. GMT in London. From there it chopped lower, with the low tick of 80.87 coming at 11:15 a.m. EST in New York. Then it rallied a bit into the close, finishing the Thursday session at 81.03, which was up 23 basis points from Wednesday.
Not surprisingly, the gold stocks gapped up a bit at the open, and then rallied unsteadily for the rest of the day. The HUI finished almost on its high, up 2.65%.
The same can be said for the silver equities, except that they performed even better. Nick Laird's Intraday Silver Sentiment Index closed up 3.47%.
The CME's Daily Delivery Report showed that zero gold and 15 silver contracts were posted for delivery within the Comex-approved depositories on Monday. Jefferies was the short/issuer on all 15, and JPMorgan was the long/stopper on 13 of them, all for its client's account. The link to yesterday's Issuers and Stoppers Report is here.
There were no reported changes in GLD yesterday, but SLV reported another withdrawal. This time it was 1,637,392 troy ounces. So far this month, 3.51 million ounces have been withdrawn from SLV.
There was no sales report from the U.S. Mint.
Joshua Gibbons, the "Guru of the SLV Bar List" had this to say about the prior week's SLV in/out activities for the week ending on Wednesday, November 13: "Analysis of the 13 November 2013 bar list, and comparison to the previous week's list -- No bars were added, removed, or had a serial number change. As of the time that the bar list was produced, it was over-allocated 8.8 troy ounces.
There was a withdrawal of 1,733,842.8 troy ounces on Monday that has not yet been reflected on the bar list, and which should appear on the next bar list [as it normally takes a day or two for the bar list to get updated."
There was no sales report from the U.S. Mint.
Once again there was little gold in/out activity over at the Comex-approved depositories on Wednesday. Nothing was reported received, and only 160 troy ounces were reported shipped out.
And as is almost always the case, it was much busier in silver, as 300,925 troy ounces were reported received, and 601,137 troy ounces were shipped out the door on Wednesday. The link to that activity is here.
Here's the latest Monetary Base chart from FRED that's published by the St. Louis Fed, and I thank Casey Research's own Jeff Clark for sending it our way.
It's "Print, or die!" -- and that's precisely what they're doing.
I have quite a few stories for you today, and I hope you find the time to read the ones that most interest you.
Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen on Thursday robustly defended the Federal Reserve's bold steps to spur economic growth, calling efforts to boost hiring an "imperative" at a hearing into her nomination to become the first woman to lead the U.S. central bank.
Answering questions before the Senate Banking Committee, Yellen made plain she would press forward with the Fed's ultra-easy monetary policy until officials were confident a durable economic recovery was in place that could sustain job creation.
"I consider it imperative that we do what we can to promote a very strong recovery," Yellen told the panel.
I note that this Reuters story from yesterday, which is very much worth reading, has had a headline change by the 'Thought Police', as it now reads "Yellen says stronger job growth a Fed imperative". I thank West Virginia reader Elliot Simon for today's first news item.
What needs to be confronted is the scandal of Federal Reserve independence. Where in the Constitution does it say that monetary policy is supposed — or permitted — to be independent of politics? If the Founders of America had wanted the monetary power to be given to a body independent of politics, they could have given it to the Army or the Navy or the Supreme Court. But they sat down in Philadelphia and gave the power to "coin money and regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin" to, in the Congress, the single most political institution in the entire constitutional system.
So where in the world does Mrs. Yellen come off lecturing the Congress on the need for independence? It's not as if independence and opacity have produced much in the way of results. The value of the dollar has collapsed to levels that would have appalled not only the Founders of America but the congress that founded the Federal Reserve. Even after rising a bit in the past year or so, the value of the dollar is still, at a 1,250th of an ounce of gold, less than half of its value on the day Mr. Bernanke acceded to the chairmanship and a shadow of what it was when the Fed was founded.
This editorial comment was posted on The New York Times website yesterday...and I found it buried in a GATA release that Chris Powell filed from New Orleans late last night. It's worth reading as well.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the first time failed to sell some of the soured mortgages it's auctioning off in the wake of the housing crisis, according to four people with knowledge of the results.
HUD deemed bids on about $450 million of home loans too low to accept at an Oct. 30 sale, said the people, who asked not to be named because the details are private. Since 2010, the agency has sold about 50,000 non-performing single-family loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration to investors willing to either help keep the borrowers in their homes or rehab the properties for sale.
The sales are an attempt by HUD to simultaneously stem losses at the financially troubled FHA and pursue its public mission of averting foreclosures on the underlying properties. The refusal to accept bids on some of the pools may reflect that the FHA reached its limit on the losses it was willing to realize to keep some borrowers in homes or stabilize markets.
This Bloomberg news item was posted on their Internet site late on Wednesday evening MST...and it's the second contribution to today's column from Elliot Simon.
There is a reason why U.S. consumer revolving (credit card) credit growth is getting lower and lower and lower and at last check posted a mere 0.2% annual increase.
That reason is that as the N.Y. Fed disclosed moments ago, federal student loans officially crossed the $1 trillion level for the first time ever. Notably: the quarterly student loan balance has increased every quarter without fail for the past 10 years!
This short Zero Hedge article from yesterday contains three excellent charts...and I consider it a must read. I thank Manitoba reader Ulrike Marx for her first contribution of the day.
Moody's Investors Service cut its ratings on four of the biggest U.S. banks after deciding the government would be less likely to help them repay creditors in a crisis.
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. had their senior holding company ratings lowered one level yesterday after Moody's concluded a review of eight U.S. banks that began in August. Spokesmen for the four companies declined to comment.
U.S. banking regulators have been preparing rules and procedures that seek to allow the government to wind down even the largest financial companies without providing taxpayer assistance. The plans would require investors to accept losses and could require bonds to be converted into equity capital.
This Bloomberg article was posted on their website yesterday afternoon Denver time...and I thank reader U.D. for sending it our way.
To promote its standing in China, JPMorgan Chase turned to a seemingly obscure consulting firm run by a 32-year-old executive named Lily Chang.
Ms. Chang's firm, which received a $75,000-a-month contract from JPMorgan, appeared to have only two employees. And on the surface, Ms. Chang lacked the influence and public name recognition needed to unlock business for the bank.
But what was known to JPMorgan executives in Hong Kong, and some executives at other major companies, was that "Lily Chang" was not her real name. It was an alias for Wen Ruchun, the only daughter of Wen Jiabao, who at the time was China's prime minister, with oversight of the economy and its financial institutions.
This interesting story was posted on The New York Times website late on Wednesday evening...and I thank reader Lou Horner for bringing it to our attention.
From their desks at some of the world's biggest banks, traders exchanged a series of instant messages that earned them the nickname "the cartel."
Much like companies that rigged the price of vitamins and animal feed, the traders were competitors that hatched alliances for their own profits, federal investigators suspect.
If those suspicions are correct, the group of traders shared a mission to alter the price of foreign currencies, the largest and yet least regulated market in the financial world. And ultimately, they flooded the market with trades that potentially raised the cost of currency for clients but aided the banks' own investments.
"The manipulation we've seen so far may just be the tip of the iceberg," the United States Attorney General, Eric H. Holder Jr., said in a rare interview discussing an active investigation. "We've recognized that this is potentially an extremely consequential investigation."
What about the precious metal markets, along with copper and oil, Mr. Holder? This story was posted on The New York Times website late yesterday evening...and I thank Phil Barlett for sharing it with us.
The euro zone economy all but stagnated in the third quarter of the year with France's recovery fizzling out and growth in Germany slowing.
The 9.5 trillion euro economy pulled out of its longest recession in the previous quarter but record unemployment, lack of consumer confidence and anemic bank lending continue to prevent a more solid rebound.
In the three months to September, the combined economy of the 17 countries sharing the euro grew by a slower than expected 0.1 percent. In the previous quarter it rose 0.3 percent - the first expansion in 18 months.
This Reuters news item, co-filed from Brussels and Paris, was posted on their website early yesterday morning EST...and it's the first contribution of the day from Roy Stephens.
The doves are seizing control of the European Central Bank. They are already laying the ground work for a blitz of Anglo-Saxon QE, whatever the Germans, Dutch, Austrians, and Finns (?) have to say about such wicked Latin conduct.
Welcome to the next fascinating phase of the EMU opera buffa, opera tragica.
The ECB's Peter Praet – the board member in charge of setting economic policy debates – has given an astonishing interview to Brian Blackstone at The Wall Street Journal, opening the floodgates for bond purchases.
It is clear that the slide towards deflation and Euroland's fizzling recovery have caused a revolt at long last. The ECB's Latin (plus) majority simply refuses to accept Bundesbank orders any more.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is at it again! This blog was posted on the telegraph.co.uk Internet site sometime yesterday...and it's worth reading. My thanks go out to Roy Stephens for his second offering in a row.
Having run out of traditional tools to boost economic growth and push inflation towards the 2 percent target, the European Central Bank is considering to introduce a negative interest rate or purchase assets from the banks.
"If our mandate is at risk we are going to take all the measures that we think we should take to fulfill that mandate. That's a very clear signal", Peter Praet, the ECB executive board member, told the Wall Street Journal.
The negative rate on bank holdings at the ECB means that banks will receive back less than they initially deposited. It is a sort of "penalty" for holding money on account at the central bank. The measure is intended to stimulate banks to plough money back into economy rather than to hold it in reserve.
This very short news items is on the same subject as Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote about in the previous story, but with a Russia Today spin. It was posted on their Internet site late yesterday afternoon Moscow time...and it's courtesy of South African reader Bob Visser.
Eurozone finance ministers will meet on Thursday (14 November) with the currency union's four bailout programmes dominating an otherwise quiet agenda.
Officials are, once again, becoming frustrated by Greece. The Greek government and its creditors are "billions apart" on the country's 2014 budget, an EU official with knowledge of the programmes told reporters earlier this week.
The Greek government believes that it needs to find spending cuts worth a further €500 million, while the Troika - composed of officials from the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank - estimates the current shortfall to be €2.9 billion.
This news item was posted on the euobserver.com Internet site yesterday morning Europe time...and it's another offering from Roy Stephens.
The U.S. and other Western powers have imposed sanctions on Iran not because it poses a serious threat but because a weak economy would keep Iran under control of the international community, Caleb Maupin, an International Action Center organizer, told Russia Today.
RT: Washington has renewed what it calls 'a state of emergency regime' with Tehran. How significant is that?
Caleb Maupin: Well, it's really outrageous. Iran has made clear for the last several decades that it has absolutely no intention of developing nuclear weapons, that it only seeks to develop peaceful nuclear power and it has abided by every single requirement of it with the International Atomic Energy Agency under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and yet this propaganda continues to go out claiming that there is some kind of Iranian threat to world peace. Well the reason that the United States, Israel, France, and countries like that are threatened by Iran is not because Iran is aggressive or anything like that. They're threatened because Iran seeks independent economics. In the Iranian Revolution of 1979 the people of Iran rose up, they overthrew the Shah – who was a brutal US-backed dictator – and they began a course of independent economic development. The profits from Iranian oil go to the Iranian economy. They don't go to the bankers on Wall Street, they don't go to the London Stock Exchange, they go to the people. They go to the Iranian economy. And they don't want independent economic development and that's what the aggression against Iran is all about. And Iran has been more than accommodating, it's made clear it has no desire for aggression. When President Rouhani was at the United Nations he made clear that he was talking of a world against violence and extremism and making clear that Iran is not aggressive, Iran does not want violence. But it's clear that the Wall Street bankers and the corporations and the US government which represents them is very very committed to hostility toward Iran and that's what we're seeing with these new sanctions.
The man speaks the absolute truth, dear reader. That's what all this is about. If you haven't read G. Edward Griffin's Book "The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve", it's not too late to rectify that state of affairs. This is an absolute must read, and not just for students of the New Great Game.
1. The first interview is with GATA's secretary/treasurer Chris Powell...and it's headlined "Asian Central Banker's Shocking Confession About the West". 2. The second commentary is by Robin Griffiths. It bears the title "The Ingredients For a Massive "Crash" Are Now in Place". 3. The last commentary is from Keith Barron, and it bears the headline "Chilling Warning Coming From China and the Elites".
[Please direct any questions or comments about what is said in these interviews by either Eric King or his guests to them, and not to me. Thank you. - Ed]
Gold may be on vacation, but it will come back soon, according to John Hathaway and Doug Groh, co-portfolio managers of the Tocqueville Gold Fund, because extreme monetary policies seen across the major economies in the world — namely Japan, Europe and the United States — are pouring a foundation of support beneath the yellow metal and its miners.
In a column for Investment News, Hathaway and Groh wrote that government policy is one of the best things gold has going for it.
The duo wrote that dovish Janet Yellen's nomination as the next head of the Federal Reserve means near-zero interest rates are likely to be extended against a backdrop of increased gold demand in emerging markets like India and China.
True enough on the face of it, I suppose...but not a word about what's at the root of all this, and that's the fact that JPMorgan Chase controls the Comex futures market in all four precious metals. John knows it to be true, but not a word about escaped his lips. This article was posted on the moneynews.com Internet site early Wednesday morning EST...and I thank Elliot Simon for sending it.
China is this year set to usurp India as the world's biggest gold consumer by a convincing margin as strict import rules introduced by New Delhi bite, forecasts from the World Gold Council showed on Thursday.
The industry body cut its outlook for Indian demand in 2013 to around 900 tonnes from the 1,000 tonnes predicted previously, while keeping its forecast for China unchanged at 1,000 tonnes.
Plummeting demand from India could further pressure global prices that have dropped around 24 percent this year on fears the U.S. Federal Reserve would cut its economic stimulus.
"The administrative measures that the Indian government has imposed on the market have proven to be quite effective and imports have slowed down," Albert Cheng, the WGC's managing director for the Far East told Reuters.
This Reuters story is another news item I found in a GATA release from yesterday. It was filed from Singapore yesterday afternoon IST. The real headline reads "WGC sees China well ahead of India as world's No. 1 gold consumer".
In the first nine months of the year, physical gold ETFs saw almost 700 tonnes in redemptions.
But, according to Marcus Grubb, MD Investments at the World Gold Council, recently "We have almost seen a cessation of outflows and, in fact, we had some net inflows globally in the last two to three weeks into November."
Speaking to Mineweb on the release of the Council's Gold Demand Trends for Q3 2013 report, Grubb said, "It was striking to me that despite considerably stronger-than-expected economic numbers on Friday last week - Non farm payroll and GDP - we have not seen significant ETF redemptions since then, a couple of tonnes at the most... what that means is a lot of the commodity super cycle investors have exited gold and also those investors were fearful of a collapse of the banking and financial system."
The implication of this, Grubb says, is that those investors now holding ETFs "are strategically committed to gold and have it as a unique hedge asset and a diversifier in their portfolio."
This article was posted on the mineweb.com Internet site yesterday...and I thank Ulrike Marx for sending along.
Gold demand fell 21% in volume terms during the third quarter of 2013, the World Gold Council says, driven lower by continued outflows from ETFs.
Writing in its Gold Demand Trends report for the three months to end September, the Council said, gold demand fell to 868.5 tonnes. This translated, in value terms to US$37bn, down 37% on the quarter.
While this was lowest quarter in value terms since the first three months of 2010, the figures continue to follow the two key themes that have emerged during the year the council says - "the rising level of consumer demand off-setting outflows from ETFs, and the geographical flow of gold from western to eastern markets.
This commentary, which is worth reading, was also posted on the mineweb.com Internet site yesterday...and it's also another offering from Ulrike Marx.
The graph below is from The World Gold Council's latest Gold Demand Trends report and is appropriately titled West to east.
The Council makes the point in its commentary that this flow can also be marked in the volume of the metal being converted from London Good Delivery bar-form into smaller, 'Asian consumer-friendly denominations of kilo-bars and below'.
According to the WGC, "Eurostat show exports of gold from the UK to Switzerland for the January – August period grew more than tenfold, to 1,016.3t.1 This compares with a total of just 85.1t for the same period in 2012."
This is another story by Geoff Candy over at the mineweb.com yesterday...and it dovetails nicely with the precious story. The embedded graph is worth a look, but tiny numbers and words will be a challenge to read for some. It's the third story in a row from Ulrike Marx.
Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson, who cut his gold holdings by more than half in the second quarter, maintained his bet on the metal over the next three months as prices rebounded.
Paulson & Co., the largest investor in the SPDR Gold Trust, the biggest exchange-traded product for the metal, held 10.23 million shares as of Sept. 30, unchanged from June 30, according to a government filing yesterday. Billionaire George Soros took a stake in the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF.
This longish Bloomberg story was posted on their website yesterday evening MST...and I thank reader Ken Hurt for digging it up for us.
Silver coins are gaining favor among investors and sales could rise to a record high in 2013, thanks to a sharp fall in the precious metal's price.
Demand for silver, which is sought after by investors and industrial users alike, is expected to rise, consultancy Thomson Reuters GFMS said in a recent report. The industrial sector accounts for about 45% of global silver consumption, it said.
Already, sales of the U.S. Mint's American Eagle silver coins have surpassed 2012 levels, as investors are snapping silver coins up "at a breakneck pace," said Dallas-based precious metals dealer Dillon Gage Inc. The dealer expects American Eagle silver coin sales in the U.S. to exceed a record of 39.868 million troy ounces set in 2011. Silver coin sales totalled 39.17 million ounces in the 10 months ended Oct. 31, eclipsing the 33.74 million ounces sold in 2012, it said.
This news item was posted on the blogs.wsj.com Internet site in the wee hours of yesterday morning...and it's certainly worth skimming. I thank Elliot Simon for his last contribution to today's column.
Captain Robert Mayne stands at the wheel as he guides the steel-hulled Aqua Quest from the docks in the Florida Keys, pointing the vessel toward what he's been assured is a gold-laden shipwreck that may be worth tens of millions of dollars.
Mayne, 60, says experience has taught him such gold hunts can be perilous: inspiring obsession, sending treasure hunters on endless journeys and blinding them to reason.
"Gold makes people crazy," says Mayne, who in his youth smuggled marijuana, and now has neatly combed, greying hair. "They become lost in their dream."
Even he finds the pull irresistible. Investors who hold rights to the site southwest of Key West say it may be the resting place of a galleon sunk by a 1622 hurricane. Mayne has agreed to cover the cost of the excursion in exchange for half of any treasure.
This very interesting story was posted on the Bloomberg Internet site late Wednesday evening Mountain Time...and I thank Ken Hurt for sharing it with us.
The precious metal arrived late Monday on a special flight from Bangkok and is under armed guard at the temple in Bodh Gaya, a holy town about 100 kilometres from Patna, the capital of Bihar state.
"A 40-member team including experts and two dozen commandos from Thailand have arrived at Bodh Gaya with gold in 13 boxes," Arvind Kumar Singh, a member of the temple management committee, said.
The Mahabodhi Temple, built about 1,500 years ago, is a UNESCO world heritage site and marks the place where the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment in 531 B.C.
This is another very interesting story. It was filed from Patna, India...and posted on the Bangkok Post website late yesterday evening local time. And I thank Ulrike Marx for her final contribution to today's column.
Central bankers are aware of the fractional-reserve nature and vulnerabilities of the international gold banking system, your secretary/treasurer told King World News yesterday in an interview about his recent presentations in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
The gold price suppression scheme, Powell added, could collapse abruptly as the London Gold Pool did in 1968 or, more likely, will end in an international currency revaluation that prices gold at a much higher level.
This interview was posted under the King World News blogs further up in this column, but because of its importance, I thought it worth posting on its own just to make sure you didn't miss it. It's a must read for sure.
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A few words about the horrid silver price action the past few days, especially relative to gold. As is almost always the case, there are no legitimate supply/demand developments to account for the one dollar loss in silver so far this week. Once again, this is strictly a blatant episode of JPMorgan and allied commercials rigging prices lower to induce technical fund selling. The succession of lower lows on increasing volume virtually guarantee that this week's COT report will show significant reductions in the total net commercial short positions for both Comex silver and gold. - Silver analyst Ted Butler: 13 November 2013
With the exception of the smallish rally in gold in the Far East, and the rally in early New York trading, which got dispatched in the usual manner, it was pretty quiet in the precious metal world yesterday. Gold volume was higher because JPMorgan et al probably had to throw a decent amount of Comex paper at these attempted breakouts to prevent them from getting out of hand. Mission accomplished, but it blew out the volume a bit. Silver's volume was actually down from Wednesday.
As Ted mentioned in the quote above, we get the latest Commitment of Traders Report today for positions held at the close of Comex trading on Tuesday, and both of us are expecting it to show big improvements, as the price action during the reporting week certainly indicates that this is what the report will show. As Ted also said the other day, you know the silver and gold markets have been rigged for decades when you can forecast in advance with almost absolute certainty what will be in it, and I'll have all the details for you tomorrow.
We're still not out of the woods yet as far as the precious metal prices are concerned, and it won't end until "da boyz" have taken all the blood out of the technical funds and small traders that they can. I don't know the timing, but as I mentioned either late last week, or early this week, this could drag on until we get past First Day Notice at the end of the month. With December being the biggest delivery month of the year in both gold and silver, I doubt very much that the powers that be will want too much excitement between now and then.
Since they are 100% in control of prices, that's probably the scenario that we'll have, no matter what external forces want to drive the market.
But they can't control prices forever, and as Chris Powell said earlier, one of these days we're going to get a big monetary/financial reset, which is something I [and others] have been talking about off and on for years; and when that day comes, you'll be either all the way in, or all the way out.
There was a bit of a positive bias to precious metal price in early trading in the Far East on their Friday, but as the Hong Kong trading day wore on, prices faded. All four precious metals are back at, or below, their Thursday afternoon New York closes going into the London open, which occurred a few moments ago as I write this paragraph. Volumes are exceedingly light, and the dollar index is comatose.
More than two hours have passed since I wrote the above paragraph, and I note that all four precious metals are below where they were at the London open, and volumes in gold and silver are almost double what they were then, especially silver volume. But, having said that, overall volumes aren't all that heavy. Net volume in gold is 21,000 contracts, and in silver it's 5,500 contracts. And as I hit the send button at 5:10 a.m. EST, gold is down about six bucks, and silver is down 15 cents. The dollar index still isn't doing a thing.
Precious metal trading in New York on a Friday always makes me nervous, and I shan't hazard a guess as to what JPMorgan et al have in store for us for the remainder of this trading session. But nothing should surprise you, dear reader, as it certainly won't surprise me.
That's all I have for this column, which is more than enough.
Enjoy your weekend, or what's left of it, and I'll see you here tomorrow.


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The owner of an Austin restaurant is facing criticism for saying he doesn't care about a bunch of dead white kids following the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.
According to The Digital Texan, Eddie Nimibutr, chef and owner of Thai Noodle House, posted on Facebook that he didn't "give a damn" about 20-year-old Adam Lanza killing 26 people, including 20 kids, at Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday.
"I am failing to give a damn about the CT shooting," Nimibutr posted. "I don't care if a bunch of white kids got killed."
He then launched into an expletive-laden tirade.
"F*** post racial bull****. When kids from minority groups get shot nobody cares," he said, according to The Digital Texas, adding that everyone turned the other way when Israel was launching rockets into Gaza.
According to Austinist, Nimibutr refused to apologize for his initial post.
"You think you know me? You don't have a clue. I will not apologize," he wrote.
When a local restaurant writer R.L. Reeves Jr. tried to reach Nimibutr, he was told that Nimibutr was never the owner of the restaurant and that he doesn't work at the Noodle House anymore, despite listings showing that he is the actual owner.
Nimibutr's Facebook has since been deactivated.
Shows that ppl r hypocrites and can't face their racist reality...MzGrahamBitches wrote: »Yeah dude is backpeddling now that he's lost business and received death threats.
Dude must have forgot that he's in Texas now.
They do if you multiply them.he has a point about people not caring about minorities but two negatives dont make a positive
••K!NG ILLuMINaTi•• wrote: »"You think you know me? You don't have a clue. I will not apologize," he wrote.
I mean like 50 people get murdered by gun violence every weekend in Chicago and not a single fuck given by the media.


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This is to Love, INC., and the Craig community.
The teachers and staff at Craig Middle School would like to extend our deepest thanks and appreciation for the "goody" bags given to us at the beginning of the year.
How delightful to receive, literally, a small Christmas in August.
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Again, thank you for all you do in the Craig community, and we truly appreciate your gesture of goodwill and support.
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Green Point Upper Reservoir. (Photo No. hooDA0077)
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Dimensions: 3872 x 2571 pixels (300 dpi version); Date created: July 2009; Camera: Nikon D80 Digital SLR; Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED; Photographer citation: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives; Keywords/Tags: horizontal, Oregon, Hood River County, rural, foothills, Cascade Mountains, trees, Green Point Upper Reservoir, lake, lakeside, lakeshore, campground, county park, clouds.
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