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It's the Flow, Stupid
"Gold has always been funny in that way. So many people worldwide think of it as money, it tends to dry up as the price rises."
To collectors, however, the most interesting Saudi gold coins weren't coins at all; they were "gold discs" Similar to coins, they were minted by the Philadelphia Mint in the 1940's for Aramco, and bore, on one side, the U.S. Eagle and the legend "U.S. Mint, Philadelphia, USA" and, on the other side, three lines on the fineness and weight. They looked like coins, they were used as coins, but, technically, they weren't coins.There is an extremely important point hidden in those articles. Can you guess what it is?
It is that the price of gold does not matter to the producer/saver, only the flow of gold matters. I'll say it again. The producer/saver doesn't care about the price of gold, only the flow. To the producer/saver the price doesn't matter because it is a straight currency exchange, like exchanging dollars for euros.
Did you see it in the article? Aramco owed the Saudis $3 million a year, but it had to be paid in gold. They didn't owe 2.67 tonnes of gold per year, but that's what they had to pay because the US fixed the price of gold at $35 per ounce. The US could have raised the price of gold to $100/ounce and then it would have only had to ship .93 tonnes of gold to the Saudis! Would the Saudis have been displeased with such a move? No. The guaranteed price of gold only matters to the printer of paper gold. To the producer/savers, all that matters is the guaranteed flow of physical!
Up until 1971 the US administered the flow of physical gold within the official international dollar banking system. If you were not an insider you paid sometimes as much as $70 per ounce for the same gold:
The bullion coins were crated and shipped to Bombay, where the $35-an-ounce American gold was sold for $70 an ounce. Most of the coins were melted into bars and later sold in Macao. - (New York Times, 1991)
During this time dollars outside the US were "as good as gold" while dollars inside were not. FOA called these internal dollars "Fiat 33" after the Presidential order of 1933 that made all internal dollars irredeemable in gold. Oil produced inside the US or even in Canada and Mexico could be purchased with "Fiat 33" dollars, while overseas oil required paper gold, redeemable in US Treasury physical gold. Even the Saudis eventually accepted the US paper gold, as long as a portion of it was regularly redeemed.
We all know why the flow of official gold was cut off, right?
John Defterios: 1973, the Arab oil embargo, you were a key player during that process. The former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said it was political blackmail what Saudi Arabia and OPEC were doing to the rest of the world. In retrospect how did you see it?
According to Yamani, what happened in 1973 was twofold. There was an American plan, and also an OPEC overreaction. 1973 was, according to Yamani, the first time that OPEC flexed its muscles as an organization. From the full transcript of the interview:
Sheikh Yamani: Yes and there was an agreement between the Shah of Iran and between Dr.Henry Kissinger to raise the price of oil... I really highly respect Henry Kissinger. He is really a planner and strategically he is a man to be respected.Is it true? I don't know. But I think it's true. Not because I believe Sheikh Yamani, but because I believe FOA and ANOTHER were 100% honest, credible and deeply resourced. And Sheikh Yamani happens to corroborate what FOA wrote eleven years earlier.
But whether or not it's true is beside the point, which is the same point ANOTHER made in his very first post, quoting his friend and fellow poster, "Hong Kong Big Trader":
It was once said that "gold and oil can never flow in the same direction". If the current price of oil doesn't change soon we will no doubt run out of gold.
Now you might think he was saying "If the current price of oil doesn't RISE soon we will no doubt run out of gold." But he didn't say rise, he said change. And it is not as simple as you would think.
From 1980 through 2001 gold did flow, though not in the efficient way it would in a free market. With the expansion of the gold forward sales and futures markets, the Saudis and the third world bought up all excess physical gold flow. As ANOTHER said in his very VERY first post, which is prior to even the USAGold archives:
September 14, 1997 by "ANOTHER"
The CBs are becoming "primary suppliers" to the gold market. Understand that they are not doing this because they want to, they have to. The [CB] words are spoken to show a need to raise capital but we knew that was a [smoke] screen from long ago. You will find the answer to the LBMA problem if you follow a route that connects South Africa, The Middle East, India and then into Asia!
Remember this; the Western world uses paper as a real value, but oil and gold will never flow in the same direction. Big Trader
"South Africa, The middle east, India and then into Asia!" This was where the physical was flowing while we, in the West, were becoming enamored with paper gold trading. No longer did the US Treasury have to supply ITS gold, the market was supplying gold for it. But keeping the physical flow bought up, cornered as it were, was putting a great deal of stress on the paper market of the LBMA by the mid-1990's. It's all about the flow remember, the flow of PHYSICAL that is. FOA:
FOA (12/04/99; 21:34:03MDT - Msg ID:20282)
Earlier this year, old bullion supply dried up and it looked like the last of the private "old stocks of gold" had finally run out. Then the price shock from the Washington Agreement flushed out some more. I've written on this before (and ORO told it better than I), but the more the old holders sell out in return for holding "unallocated gold accounts" the worse the shortage will be when the marketplace fails. Slowly, over many years, the people that now hold the real bullion that was sold to create a lot of paper gold, have literally locked up the ownership. The old liquid gold market we used to know in years past functioned because of all the private physical holders that traded it. Now, it's all paper being shuffled around.
This gets back to your LBMA item. The old, deep private bullion pool has been replaced with a paper commitment pool. In the past, if someone defaulted, we just grabbed their bullion. Today, if they default, they just default! Again, if that big African mine does tell them to take a hike, the whole modern gold market could just collapse. This is why I smile when I hear someone question why the big funds and traders don't just take delivery against OTC paper. The question is just exactly what are they going to take delivery of?
All the gold movement is just for show. Same for Comex. Sock a little gold in there and complete a few deliveries so it all looks right. It's all the same game we played with the dollar before 1971. Only when everyone asked for delivery did we find out that the world was awash in paper gold,,,,,I mean dollars! It's going to happen again, real soon.
Date: Tue Oct 07 1997 22:37
You see, when paper trading volume dries up it's a bearish sign, but when real physical gold volume drops it's bullish! That's because gold is being cornered on a scale never seen in history. LBMA is doing its best to show real volume exists!
Date: Sun Oct 05 1997 21:29
The Western governments needed to keep the price of gold down so it could flow where they needed it to flow. The key to free up gold was simple. The Western public will not hold an asset that's going nowhere, at least in currency terms. The problem for the CBs was that the third world has kept the gold market "bought up" by working thru South Africa! To avoid a spiking oil price the CBs first freed up the public's gold thru the issuance of various types of "paper future gold". As that selling dried up they did the only thing they could, become primary suppliers!
You see, after 1980, "oil" started trusting paper gold again, just like it did in the 1950's, as long as some of it could be exchanged for physical. But having been burned once, in 1971, they weren't about to be burned again. And what the euro CB's figured out was all that mattered to the producer/savers of the world was the guaranteed FLOW of physical gold, NOT the guaranteed price or weight/mass. (And this is why we pull it out of the ground: so it can FLOW!)
This is what the euro architecture guarantees in the case of a dollar (paper gold market) failure: that physical gold will flow... uninhibited! It does this through its "severed link" association with its own official monetary gold reserves, allowing them to float against the currency and publicly proclaiming this policy every three months in its quarterly "marked to market" consolidated statement. This is something the Fed simply cannot do because the Fed's "gold stocks" are irredeemable paper gold Treasury certificates marked at $42.22 per ounce. The US Treasury owns all the gold. The Fed owns paper (and electronic book entry, post 1935) certificates that are irredeemable to the Fed, so how can it possibly mark them to market?
Notice the Fed still quotes its "(paper) gold stock" (or "gold certificate account" as it is listed on the consolidated statement) on its own balance sheet as 11,041. That is in millions of dollars, so 11,041 is really $11,041,000,000 divided by $42.22 per ounce which comes out to 261,511,132 ounces which, surprise surprise, comes out to 8133.5 tonnes, the same amount voluntarily reported to the WGC and relayed to Wikipedia.
Speaking of Wikipedia, let's see how much gold Saudi Arabia is voluntarily reporting in its "capital account." Wow! Only 322.9 tonnes? That's strange, because when I look back at the A/FOA archives I find that on "Mon Dec 15 1997 11:06" Allen estimated, "Saudi stockpile guesstimate 5,000 metric tonnes," to which ANOTHER proclaimed, "Mr. Allen's perfect article" and, "Mr. Allen, thank you for this thinking. It should be read by everyone."
Oh, and then on "12/1/99; 23:54:38MDT" ORO estimated, "I believe the current gold in hand would be about 6000 tons or so in Saudi hands. The Oil Royals paper gold position outstanding was probably in the 8000 ton range in the end of 98." To this, FOA wrote, "Oro understood this and posted it." (FOA (12/5/99; 17:38:01MDT - Msg ID:20347))
So does it make any sense that the paper-gold printer is practically ignoring his real gold account at $42/oz. while the real-goods producer/savers are intentionally underreporting theirs? I suppose it makes some sense in a really unbalanced "hypothetical" international monetary system that is about to come undone. What do you think?
In my post, The Shoeshine Boy, I wrote that I would revisit the context in which ANOTHER made the statement at the top of this post because it portends vast changes in the international monetary system directly in front of us. So I guess it is time to take a look at that context. Here is ANOTHER's entire first post archived on USAGold:
Date: Sun Oct 05 1997 21:29
Everyone knows where we have been. Let's see where we are going!
It was once said that "gold and oil can never flow in the same direction". If the current price of oil doesn't change soon we will no doubt run out of gold.
This line of thinking is very real in the world today but it is never discussed openly. You see oil flow is the key to gold flow. It is the movement of gold in the hidden background that has kept oil at these low prices. Not military might, not a strong US dollar, not political pressure, no it was real gold. In very large amounts. Oil is the only commodity in the world that was large enough for gold to hide in. No one could make the South African / Asian connection when the question was asked, "how could LBMA do so many gold deals and not impact the price". That's because oil is being partially used to pay for gold! We are going to find out that the price of gold, in terms of real money ( oil ) has gone thru the roof over these last few years. People wondered how the physical gold market could be "cornered" when its currency price wasn't rising and no shortages were showing up? The CBs were becoming the primary suppliers by replacing openly held gold with CB certificates. This action has helped keep gold flowing during a time that trading would have locked up.
(Gold has always been funny in that way. So many people worldwide think of it as money, it tends to dry up as the price rises.) Westerners should not be too upset with the CBs actions, they are buying you time!
So why has this played out this way? In the real world some people know that gold is real wealth no matter what currency price is put on it. Around the world it is traded in huge volumes that never show up on bank statements, govt. stats., or trading graph paper.
The Western governments needed to keep the price of gold down so it could flow where they needed it to flow. The key to free up gold was simple. The Western public will not hold an asset that going nowhere, at least in currency terms. ( if one can only see value in paper currency terms then one cannot see value at all ) The problem for the CBs was that the third world has kept the gold market "bought up" by working thru South Africa! To avoid a spiking oil price the CBs first freed up the public's gold thru the issuance of various types of "paper future gold". As that selling dried up they did the only thing they could, become primary suppliers! And here we are today. In the early 1990s oil went to $30++ for reasons we all know. What isn't known is that its price didn't drop that much. You see the trading medium changed. Oil went from $30++ to $19 + X amount of gold! Today it costs $19 + XXX amount of gold! Yes, gold has gone up and oil has stayed the same in most eyes.
Now all govts. don't get gold for oil, just a few. That's all it takes. For now! When everyone that has exchanged gold for paper finds out its real price, in oil terms they will try to get it back. The great scramble that "Big Trader" understood may be very, very close.
Now my friends you know where we are at and with a little thought, where we are going.
What I find most intriguing is this part:
In the early 1990s oil went to $30++ for reasons we all know. What isn't known is that its price didn't drop that much. You see the trading medium changed. Oil went from $30++ to $19 + X amount of gold! Today it costs $19 + XXX amount of gold! Yes, gold has gone up and oil has stayed the same in most eyes.
Like he said, all oil producers don't get gold, just the swing producer, Saudi Arabia. They control the flow of oil from all the other producers. If gold stops flowing and the Saudi's turn down the oil taps the price will rise. As long as gold is flowing, Saudi oil is flowing at $19/bbl and the rest of the producers must sell their oil for just the $19 cash.
So was there really a deal like this made? Of course there was! ANOTHER even gave us the math:
Date: Sat Oct 18 1997 21:04
Let me fill in the Xs.
First a reprint;
"You see the trading medium changed. Oil went from $30++ to $19 + X amount of gold!
Today it costs $19 + XXX amount of gold! "
If you owned a commodity in the ground that had to be sold for paper currency in order to realize value what would do? Yes, the oil in the ground may last another 50+ years but will the bonds and currencies of other governments last that long? One thing you don't do is buy gold outright, it would cause it to stop trading as a commodity and start trading as money! You learned that in the late 70s. Nor do you acquire "real gold money" in any fashion that would allow a comparison of price trends ( graphs ) ! There must be a way to convert the true wealth of oil into the outright wealth of gold. We know that oil is a consumed wealth of a momentary value that is lost in the heat of fire.
The stars blink and it is oil wealth no more!
It has become "the debt of nations " now owed to you. Gold on the other hand is not a commodity as many assume, as it is truly "the wealth of nations " meant to last thru the ages! A wise oil nation can strike a deal with the paper printers and in doing so come out on top. Go back a few years to the early 90s. Oil is very high, you offer to lower the US$ price in return for X amount of gold purchasing power. You don't care what the current commodity price of gold is, your future generations will keep it as real wealth to replace the oil that is lost. Before the future arrives gold will be, once again valued as money and can be truly counted on to appropriately represent all oil wealth!
The Deal:
We ( an oil state ) now value gold in trade far higher than currencies. We are willing to use gold as a partial payment for the future use of "all oil" and value it at $1,000 US. ( only a small amount of oil is in this deal ) And take a very small amount of gold out of circulation each month using its present commodity price.
If the world price can be maintained in the $300s it would be a small price for the west to pay for cheap oil and monetary stability.
The battle is now between CBs trying to keep gold in the $300s and the "others" buying it up. In effect the governments are selling gold in any form to "KEEP IT" being used as 'REAL MONEY" in oil deals! Some people know this, that is why they aren't trading it,, they are buying it.
Not all oil producers can take advantage of this deal as it is done "where noone can see". And, they know not what has happened for gold does not change in price! But I tell you, gold has been moved and it's price has changed in terms of oil! For the monthly amount to be taken off the market has changed from $10 in gold ( valued at $1,000 ) /per barrel to the current $30 in gold /per barrel still valued at $1,000! Much of this gold was in the form of deals in London to launder its movement. Because of some Asians, these deals are no longer being rolled over as paper!
Date: Tue Oct 07 1997 22:37
Ever notice how many important Middle Eastern people keep a residence in London. It's not because of the climate. The most powerful banks in the world today are the ones that trade oil and gold. It is in the "city" that the deals are done by people who understand "value"! Westerners should be happy that they do because the free flow of oil and gold has allowed this economic expansion to continue this past few years.
Understand that oil is still traded for a certain number of US$ but after the deal is done a certain amount of gold is also purchased "with the future flow of oil as collateral".
Date: Sat Mar 07 1998 13:19
A Noble Purpose, This Oil For Gold
When one considers the merits of a specialized world oil currency, the thought usually turns immediately to "send in the military and stop them". I must ask, why? If an oil currency is born before or out of the shambles of an financial meltdown, and it offers great benefit to all, again I ask, why stop it? Look at the merits of such a move:
In a very real "currency sense", oil will be devalued in terms of gold. As one makes a currency weaker by increasing the money units per ounce of gold. Oil will become very cheap in gold, as the amount of gold paid per barrel will fall dramatically as compared to today's ratio. There will be much more than enough gold worldwide to quantify a "world oil currency". To that end, the world paper "reserve currency" at use in that time, will continue to be traded for oil at an extremely low price relative to today. The only change will be the addition of a "unit of real value" added to each trade, a "world oil currency", gold! However, in terms of today's currencies, gold will be "upvalued" to perhaps $10,000 to $30,000 an ounce. So as not to rewrite what is already an excellent piece on this coming readjustment, I will repost part of Mr. Allen ( USA ) 's perfect article on the subject along with his requested changes per his :
Date: Mon Dec 15 1997 11:06( per corrections :Date: Mon Dec 15 1997 11:06 Allen ( USA ) ID#246224: )
Saudi stockpile guest-imate 5,000 metric tonnes = 5,000,000,000 GRAMS not ounces. Gold now at US$9.65 per gram revalued by multiple of 66.67 = US$643.37 per gram x 5 Bln grams = US$3.2 Tln.Mr. Allen ( USA ) ,
Another thanks you for this thinking. It should be read by everyone with an interest in this area. It should also be studied by students wishing to learn of market dynamics. We also offer this piece as an addumnum to the above, also by the same author.
Date: Mon Dec 15 1997 10:49
Why is it the oil nation would not just buy at market? Same as above. Their effect in the open market would basically shut down the market thereby frustrating their efforts to buy gold. Conversely, why would they then make the "proposal"? Because either they have enough gold to buy the world at the new price, there is a crisis in which they feel it is to their advantage to do this ( such as a US$ crisis ) or they might have a geopolitical rational. In the new valuation the US$ would still be intact. But its monopoly role would be altered. Its not that currencies would become worthless but that gold would become worth much more in relationship to paper currencies.
As I have worked it out, the purchase is done on paper. The accumulation is slow but steady. They obtain the gold for gold loans from themselves and buy it back. The rates of accumulation are not the same today as they were in the past. The 1995-1997 period was the main thrust where 8000 tons were committed and 4000 tons of their own gold were used to back that up (sums in total for the period). Trades were executed in the second and third quarter of every year. Prior to that, the accumulation was significantly slower, probably on the order of 12000 tons gross since 1987, going into 1994, a large minority of that in paper form. I believe the current gold in hand would be about 10000 tons 6000 or so in Saudi hands. The Oil Royals paper gold position outstanding was probably in the 8000 ton range in the end of 98.
I would need to expend a significantly larger effort to put all that together into better estimates with something beyond back of the envelope calculations. Right now, obtaining information before 1995 is quite difficult.
The main point is that in 98, as Asians dumped their gold, the Arab Oil countries were getting delivery.
Because of many Westerners dumping their gold holdings after a disappointing 20 years, right at the beginning of a new gold bull - right after the first spike, it is in the interest of all gold accumulators to use the opportunity of collecting more gold at a discount to do so, even if one needs to delay a long plan from executing.


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Trainer Carla Gaines knew from the beginning that she had an extremely talented filly in Warren Williamson's homebred Nashoba's Key, unbeaten in six starts. But even she admits she's a little surprised at the filly's rapid rise in the distaff ranks.
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A group of us e92 M3 owners are trying to make the trip up. I went online to try and sign up for Bimmerfest this evening and was disappointed to see that there was no selection available for the e92 M3. I noticed there is a running stat sheet going to tally the vehicles, but no e92 M3 there either...
What gives? :dunno:
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The Wine Rack - secret bra flask
"Now you can turn an A cup in to double Ds AND sport your favorite beverage for yourself and your friends!" Like the beer belly, you slip this on under your clothes, fill them with your favorite beverage, and enjoy the stares. Of course, you'll need to gauge your drinking along with your party mates. Wait until they're pretty well gone before guzzling your gazongas, because they'll be wondering where they went.
This cheeky beach towel is sure to put you in beach paradise mode.
These fabulous drink coolers wear several hats: interchangeable light tubes provide one color of your choice, cushioned tops allow for seating and the center, when filled with ice, chills your drinks. Fabu-fricking-lous!Tags: outdoor, kitchen, lighting, entertaining, seating, decor, beverages, alcohol, servingwareAdded 9 Years Ago from Opulent Items
Available in white or red version. Hell, chuck the ice, fill it with wine and pass it over here....Tags: wine, outdoor, kitchen, entertaining, decor, beverages, alcohol, servingware, partiesAdded 9 Years Ago from Opulent Items
never again loose your drink at a party! these bands come packages of 12 and say different things or are in different colors. don't fear swapping spit with your friends (unless you want to)!


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I am tall, athletic and have large eyes, my lips were not thin but very small for my face and I've always wanted a bigger, sexier mouth. I tried Juvederm about 6 months ago and was happy with the look, but not the cost considering it dissolved after about two months. I researched Permalip for months before going ahead with it.
I was nervous for the procedure but it was a breeze. They numbed me with topical cream before the nerve blocks were injected, those worked so fast that after the first two I couldn't even feel the rest. I was able to relax with my eyes closed through the procedure and the Dr. and his assistant talked me through it and kept everything relaxed. It took maybe 20-30 minutes from start to finish. I went with 5mm in top and bottom since the Dr.
recommended those sizes. My swelling was IMMEDIATELY apparent, I was mortified when I looked in the mirror! I went home feeling really anxious and had a difficult time finding anyone else with post-op pictures as bad as mine. I was terrified that I had gone too big but now after more research, I feel that once the swelling subsides I will be happy. I have no visible bruising and the swelling has decreased drastically. I am going to venture out today (3 days post-op) but only because I have to. Frankly, I look ridiculous but I am trusting the healing process and will hopefully be able to say the procedure was worth it in about a week!


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Eleven Tucson students have been named winners of college-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards.
College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study.
The local winners are: Scott A. Mahans of Ironwood Ridge High School, Teresa Joy Carmichael of Sabino High School, Evan R. Cramb and Jacob G. Stockton of Canyon del Oro High School, Rebecca Beatrice Friedman Sweet of Salpointe Catholic High School, Delaney R. Halvey of Pusch Ridge Christian Academy, Zachary W. Paul of Catalina Foothills High School, Emily Rumney of University High School, Luke A. Wohlford and Annika Young Zhang of Basis School, and Garrett T. Anderson of Cienega High School.
Students took the Preliminary SAT as an initial screener before approximately 16,000 semifinalists were named. The semifinalists were the highest-scoring program entrants in each state.
To become finalists, students had to complete a detailed scholarship application showing an outstanding academic record and be endorsed and recommended by a high school official. They also had to take the SAT and earn scores that confirmed their performance on the initial qualifying test.
About 15,000 students were named finalists and more than half were chosen to receive National Merit scholarships.


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Introducing HXLY
GPS January 30, 2012
Consisting of members Brian and Kyle, HXLY (pronounced "Huxley") are a bass-driven duo from Buffalo, New York.
Graduating with degrees in "Bass Therapy and Crowd Psychology," the duo have shared the stage among some big names including Wolfgang Gartner, Skrillex, Mt. Eden, 12th Planet, Bare, Tittsworth, Hot Pink Delorean and Run DMT. They have also had a release on Heavy Artillery recordings, full of nonstep drumstep monstrosities. Check these tunes out and see for yourself what these guys are made of!
Kaskade and Deadmau5 – Move For Me (HXLY Booty) Click here for download
HXLY – Slampire (Free Download)
HXLY's Heavy Artillery EP Promo Mixtacular (Free Download)
By GPS
GPS is a co-owner and editor at Fresh Wet Paint, resides in Miami, and kinda likes music. Stalk him on Twitter.
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Weyerhaeuser Co., WY is in the exchange NYSE and its industry is Lumber, Wood Production in the sector of Industrial Goods. Based in USA, Weyerhaeuser Co., WY has a market cap of 23571.09. Since its IPO date on the 5/3/1973, Weyerhaeuser Co., WY performance year to date is 7.98%. Today Weyerhaeuser Co., WY has gained 0.58%, with a current price of 31.38.
Ownership of the company is 0.20% for insider ownership while institutional ownership is 77.80%. The management of the company have seen the company have a payout ratio of 160.10%. Return of assets are at 2.70%, with return on investment at 9.10%.
In terms of debt levels and profit levels, Weyerhaeuser Co., WY is seeing a long-term debt/equity of 0.99. While Total debt/equity is 0.99. With a profit margin of 7.00%, this is combined with a gross margin of 21.70%, and operating margin of 13.40%. Weyerhaeuser Co. ability to meet debt levels, with a current ratio of 2.1, while the quick ratio is 1.9.
For the last year Weyerhaeuser Co., WY has seen a EPS growth of -36.40%. A performance for the year of 13.06%. The 52-week high is -4.48%, and the 52-week low is 46.74%. The average volume for Weyerhaeuser Co., WY is 3723397.
With a target price of 35.19, can Weyerhaeuser Co., WY reach this target? Looking at the value indicators of Weyerhaeuser Co., WY. Weyerhaeuser Co. has a P/E of 45.35 and a forward P/E of 25.87. Perhaps the more useful indicator than P/E, is PEG which has a value of 9.07. Weyerhaeuser Co. also has a P/S and a P/B of 3.56 and 2.48 respectively. For P/cash, Weyerhaeuser Co. has a value of 48.6, while it is *TBA for P/free cash flow.
At the current price of 31.38, Weyerhaeuser Co. has a dividend yield of 3.95%. We see a return on equity of 6.30%.
Looking more long-term Weyerhaeuser Co., is projected to get an EPS growth for the next five years of 5.00%. In the short-term an EPS growth of 48.29% in the next year is forecasted. This is after a EPS growth of -36.40% for this year and for the last five years a -25.80% growth has been seen.


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DB Marcell Harris impressed with FSU
September, 22, 2011
By Corey Long
Defensive back Marcell Harris (Groveland, Fla./South Lake) hasn't even finished half of his junior season but the accolades are coming quickly. Harris is one of the 49 Florida prospects on the ESPNU Watch List and the 6-1, 195-pound recruit was also named the top Class of 2013 prospect in the Orlando Sentinel's readership area, which includes the Orlando and Daytona area. "It's a great honor to receive these accolades," Harris said. "It lets me know that the hard work is paying off and to keep working harder because there are a lot of athletes out there working hard too. They are trying to get to the top."


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I must have missed the disclaimer on the citizenship pamphlet: Becoming a Canadian may result in serious physical scarring.
There I lay on the ice of the curling rink like a crumpled snow angel, a small claret cloud of blood blooming outward from my face. It was my first, and last, attempt at the beloved Canadian winter pastime.
I stood up slowly, groggy and punch-drunk, feeling like I'd just gone 10 rounds with Mike Tyson.
I first came to Canada more than a decade ago on a year out from my university education in England. I wanted to travel the world, forget my textbooks for a while and meet the Canadian relatives I'd recently found out I had in Victoria. I instantly fell in love with the West Coast – the mountains, the ocean, the laid-back vibe.
My cousin, James, took it upon himself to educate me about Canadian culture, from impromptu tests during Canucks hockey games ("tell me again what the icing rule is") to instructions on the grammatical use of "eh," my first taste of Kraft Dinner ("it's better with added cheddar") and my maiden pilgrimage to the incomparable beauty of Long Beach in Pacific Rim National Park.
During games of street hockey, James also taught me how to skilfully lift an opponent's jersey ("just in case you should ever get into a fight") and instilled in me a Canadian's appreciation and overprotective attitude toward the great outdoors.
I can now hum the theme tune to Hockey Night in Canada and snowboard without continually face-planting or shearing chunks of bark off unsuspecting trees.
It was this immersion into Canadian culture that led to me wanting to try curling. A group of work friends were practising for a Bonspiel in Victoria. I met them at the rink in the early evening, armed with a hip flask and several YouTube videos' worth of instructions on curling techniques. I felt good, I felt ready. Or maybe that was just the Crown Royal talking.
Having watched recent coverage of the Scotties tournament, I was convinced that curling would be as much fun as cricket or baseball. I was wrong, it turned out.
I relished the combination of skill and strategy involved in the sport. I also got a childish pleasure out of yelling "Hurry, hard!" to my sweeping team. By the end of the evening, mostly due to the patient tutelage of my friend, Ryan, my curling prowess was vastly improved and I was beginning to feel fairly confident.
So perhaps my impending accident was somewhat hubristic.
Our final game was a closely fought affair and hinged on the final end of the match. I was throwing the last rock. The pressure was on.
I launched myself down the ice, letting go of the rock, giving it the gentlest of twists to ensure it would pass the obstructing rock at the other end. It was looking good. No, it was looking great.
In my excitement I stood up quickly to get a better view of the rock's journey down the ice. Normally that would have been fine, but I had placed all my weight on the foot with the plastic slider on it.
Time shifted. I suddenly found myself face down on the ice.
"What am I doing here?" I thought calmly.
Ryan told me later that I'd literally somersaulted backwards, landing not on my hands but my chin.
"Oh man," said Ryan. "Are you okay?"
As if stoned, I turned to him and told him I was fine.
"Umm – we should probably take you to the ER," he said, visibly paling.
I was in shock and felt no pain. Being of the macho mould, I felt there was no need to go to the hospital. But I saw the blood, and so headed to the dimly lit bathroom to clean up what I thought was probably a small cut. I looked into the mirror, and lifted my head up.
The large gash in my chin yawned open like the mouth of a guppy. Fifteen minutes, later I was sitting with Ryan in the nearby ER.
We were seen by a young East Indian doctor who stitched up my second mouth. He finally asked the question I'd been dreading: "How'd you do this? Get into a fight or something?"
I reluctantly told him I'd been curling. The doctor paused mid-stitch. I sensed a mixture of incredulity and understanding, as a fellow immigrant, behind his bottle-thick glasses.
A couple of seconds passed before he continued his needlework.
"One word of advice, Marc," he said. "Don't tell the girls that."
Thirteen years later, I am a permanent resident, busy preparing for my final citizenship exam. Unfortunately it won't ask wannabe Canadians to pick Don Cherry out of a lineup or lament upon the dangers the Enbridge pipeline poses to the western environment. Rather, we need to know about former prime ministers, names of provinces and territories, and names and dates of important pieces of Canadian legislation.
But thanks to my cousin James, I have a deeper understanding of my adopted homeland that goes beyond mere facts and figures. It's not any wannabe Canadian who can say they've bled for their country.
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In September, the Iraqi government publicly committed to meet a series of political benchmarks, by the end of 2006 or early 2007, for advancing the national reconciliation process, including measures for amending the constitution; holding provincial elections; reforming de-Baathification laws; regulating the oil industry; and disbanding sectarian militias.
In unveiling his new security plan for Iraq on January 10, President Bush publicly pledged to "hold the Iraqi government to the benchmarks it has announced." He claimed that his military escalation strategy would provide a window of stability and security in which Iraqi leaders would be able to make the political compromises necessary to move forward with reconciliation. In his speech, the President asserted that, "America's commitment is not open-ended. If the Iraqi government does not follow through on its promises, it will lose the support of the American people." (New York Times, 4/4/07)
With this pledge, the President seemed to be asserting what top military officials, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, and other leading political experts have been saying: that the situation in Iraq cannot be won by military action; a successful outcome will require a political solution. As General Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq asserted at the outset of the military escalation plan, "there is no military solution to a problem like that in Iraq…Military action is necessary to help improve security…but it is not sufficient." He has advocated a "political resolution" to ensure all of Iraq's main ethnic and political groups have a stake in the future of the country. (General Petraeus Press Briefing, 3/8/07)
In the four months since the President announced his new plan and three months into the military escalation, however, there has been little notable progress toward achieving these goals and little evidence that the Bush Administration is following through on its pledge to hold Iraqi leaders accountable. The Dempcratic Policy Comittee has released a status report on political benchmarks deatiling how the Iraqi Govenrment is falling behind on promises it has made for advancing political reconciliation.
Examples of how the Iraqi government has made little to no progress towards achieving its goals:
Amending the constitution. In a deal brokered by former U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Iraq's Sunni Arab community agreed to participate in the October 2005 constitutional referendum, in exchange for the Iraqi government's pledge to allow for changes in the constitution at a later date. The government agreed to form a constitutional review committee within four months after the establishment of Iraq's elected government – by September 2006 – that would allow for an amendment process to address critical concerns of the Sunni population. According to the agreed timeline, the committee was to complete its work by January of 2007 and hold an amendments referendum by March of 2007. (Brookings Institution, Iraq Index, 4/26/07)
· Status: No Progress. The Iraqi government has not moved forward with the constitutional amendment process. The Washington Post reports that, "Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds remain split over key issues: whether Iraq should be divided into autonomous regions under a federal system; the authorities of the prime minister and the president; the national identity of Iraq; and the fate of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk." Most recently, on May 7, Iraq's top Sunni official, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi issued a warning that he will step down and pull his entire bloc out of the government if critical amendments to the constitution are not made by May 15. Al-Hashimi's Sunni coalition in parliament, which includes 44 out of a total of 275 members, is widely seen as essential to reconciliation efforts within Iraq. (Washington Post, 4/26/07; CNN, 5/7/07)
According to Laith Kubba, senior Middle East director at the National Endowment for Democracy, amending the constitution is critical to broader reconciliation and the key to making progress on other benchmarks. He recently told reporters that, "it's the constitutional amendments that are the crux of the issue;" and that "these benchmarks are in reality the byproducts of a successful political process… So if you can get the Iraqis together to flesh out differences and work together, then you will get all the benchmarks you want." (Christian Science Monitor, 4/20/07)
Disbanding militias. By May, Prime Minister al Maliki has pledged to put in place a law to disband militias.
· Status: No Progress. Although Coalition and Iraqi security forces have detained many militia members, Iraqi leaders have not reached any political agreements for dismantling militia groups. (Washington Post, 4/26/07)
Sectarian militias have proven a major obstacle to achieving security and national reconciliation. According to the Pentagon's latest progress report on security and stability in Iraq, militia infiltration of local police and national security forces, particularly at the Ministry of Interior, remains a critical problem. The report cites the threat of foreign influence – primarily from Iran – as a key concern and also states that some militias are "engaged in sectarian cleansing in Baghdad neighborhoods." (Department of Defense, Measuring Security and Stability in Iraq, March 2007)
Dealing with militias has posed a particularly complex challenge to the Iraqi government. While many of these groups are actively undermining security and fueling sectarian violence in Iraq, analysts report that some of the less radical militias play important security roles in parts of the country, by protecting areas that U.S. and Iraqi forces have been unable to secure. The Maliki government's failure to crack down on Shiite militias has promoted the perception that the government is working to advance sectarian, not national, interests. Moving forward with efforts to disband these groups, therefore, is seen as a key step to bridging sectarian divides in Iraq and bringing much-needed credibility to the Baghdad government. (Associated Press, 5/7/07; Washington Post, 4/30/07)
To read the whole report from the Democratic Policy Committee please click here.
As the al-Maliki government has failed to move forward with national reconciliation measures, the Bush Administration has pushed back the goal posts – repeatedly extending deadlines and diluting requirements for progress.
According to many experts, the Administration is failing to get Iraq's leaders to make the tough compromises necessary for national reconciliation and for achieving U.S. objectives in Iraq.
The path to success in Iraq leads through Iraqis' political reconciliation, yet the Administration's strategy which includes establishing bencmarks without any consequences is failing to deliver on this critically important issue.


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The Royal Family of Hyrule, often shortened to the Royal Family, is the governing monarch family of Hyrule. It typically consists of a reigning male sovereign, a princess traditionally named Zelda, and, sometimes, a prince. The females of the Royal Family are shown to possess magical powers, as displayed by Princess Zelda's abilities, such as telepathy and prophetic dreams.
When the Golden Goddesses first created Hyrule, the people of the land were said to be at peace. However, once the Sacred Realm and the all powerful Triforce resting within it became known to the people, many sought to enter and claim the Triforce as their own. Thus the Hyrulean Civil War began, as the tribes of Hyrule fought to establish dominion over the Sacred Realm. Finally, the war was ended when the King of Hyrule united all the tribes under the banner of the Hylian Royal Family.
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The Legend of Zelda
The only member of the Royal Family mentioned in the game is Princess Zelda, who is captured by Ganon during his attempt to acquire the Triforce of Wisdom. Impa serves as Princess Zelda's nursemaid.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Long before the events of the game, the King of Hyrule possessed the united Triforce, and secretly sealed the Triforce of Courage away in the Great Palace. When the Prince of Hyrule ascended to the throne, he sought to find it and reunite the entire Triforce. A Magician of the court told the new king that his sister, Princess Zelda, was entrusted by their dying father with a secret that she would not divulge. It is believed that this secret was the location of the Triforce of Courage, although the game manual does not explicitly say so. The Princess was questioned by her brother, but refused to tell him their father's secret. The Magician threatened to curse her if she did not give up this knowledge, and when she again refused, he put her into an enchanted sleep, the effort of which caused the Magician's own death. The new king, grief-stricken, had his comatose sister locked in the North Castle, and decreed that in her honor all the daughters born to the Royal Family would be named Zelda.
Many years later, soon after Link's defeat of Ganon in The Legend of Zelda, a Triforce Mark appears on Link's hand. Impa, nursemaid of the current Princess Zelda, informs him that it is a sign that he is destined to retrieve the Triforce of Courage, unite it with the other two pieces, and use them to awaken the sleeping Princess Zelda. After a long journey fraught with peril, Link is able to open the seal on the Great Temple, retrieve the Triforce of Courage from within, and with the unified Triforce, awaken Zelda from her long slumber.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Prior to the events of the game, a dark wizard named Agahnim gained the trust of the King of Hyrule. Agahnim eventually betrayed and killed the king, taking the throne for himself and brainwashing the Knights of Hyrule to do his bidding. Aghanim is the alter-ego of Ganon, the King of Evil, who was long ago sealed away in the Dark World by the Seven Wise Men. In order to break the seal, Agahnim begins banishing the Seven Maidens, descendants of the Seven Wise Men, to the Dark World. The last maiden in line is Princess Zelda. Fortunately, Link receives Zelda's telepathic message and goes to Hyrule Castle's dungeon and rescues her. Despite Link's efforts however, Zelda is eventually recaptured and banished to the Dark World, releasing the seal on Ganon. Before the evil king can launch his conquest of Hyrule though, Link is able to free Zelda and the other maidens, slay Agahnim, and defeat Ganon, acquiring the Triforce from him. Touching the Triforce, Link wishes that all Ganon's evil deeds be undone. His wish is granted, the King of Hyrule is brought back to life, and peace returns to the land.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
As the game takes place on the island of Koholint instead of Hyrule, the Royal Family does not appear in the game. Only one of its members is briefly mentioned, when Link mistakes Marin for Princess Zelda after he wakes up.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Hyrulean Civil War ended less than a decade before the events of the game. The leaders of the tribes of the land have sworn allegiance to the King of Hyrule, including Darunia of the Gorons, King Zora XVI of the Zora, and Ganondorf of the Gerudo. However, Ganondorf plots to betray the king and seize the Triforce. The Sheikah are also sworn protectors of the Royal Family. Link eventually meets Princess Zelda, who has had a dream foretelling Ganondorf's betrayal and Link's arrival. Her father, the King, does not believe her, and still puts his trust in Ganondorf. Zelda devises a plan for Link to retrieve the Triforce before Ganondorf does and use it to stop him. Link is eventually able to acquire the three Spiritual Stones needed to gain entry to the Sacred Realm, but before he can use them, Ganondorf launches an invasion of Hyrule Castle. It is believed that the King of Hyrule was killed during the attack. Impa, Zelda's nursemaid, is able to escape with the princess. As the two ride past Link, Zelda tosses him the Ocarina of Time, the final item needed to access the Sacred Realm. When Link opens the way to the Sacred Realm however, the plan backfires as Ganondorf enters himself. Link awakens seven years later from a magical sleep to find himself an adult in a world ruled by Ganondorf. After much questing, Link is able to find the Six Sages with the power to seal off Ganondorf. He then discovers that Sheik, who has been aiding him, is actually Princess Zelda in disguise and the seventh sage. When Zelda reveals this however, Ganondorf notices as well and warps her to his castle. After a fierce battle, Link is able to free Princess Zelda and defeat Ganondorf. The Seven Sages then seal Ganondorf away in the Sacred Realm. Peace returns to Hyrule, though Zelda is likely the only remaining member of the Royal Family.
The Composer Brothers Sharp and Flat served the Royal Family prior to their deaths, and were researching the magical powers passed down among its members. The Royal Family has a tomb dedicated to them in Kakariko Graveyard.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The game largely takes place in the alternate world of Termina, and so the Royal Family of Hyrule is not present. Princess Zelda does appear in a flashback, in which Link remembers her giving him the Ocarina of Time and teaching him the "Song of Time" before he departs Hyrule.
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons
The two games take place in the lands of Labrynna and Holodrum, respectively, where the Royal Family of Hyrule has no presence. Some of the lands' inhabitants are aware of them though, as they have heard about Princess Zelda. In a linked game, Princess Zelda will come to Labrynna/Holodrum, warning of a coming darkness that she senses. She is eventually captured by Koume and Kotake in order to light one of the Flames of the Dark Rites, and so that she can be used as a sacrifice to resurrect the Evil King, Ganon. Link is able to interrupt the ritual before Zelda can be sacrificed. He defeats the Twinrova, who are forced to sacrifice themselves to resurrect a mindless, raging form of Ganon. Link is able to defeat Ganon as well, and saves Princess Zelda.
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords
The only member of the Royal Family who appears is Princess Zelda. She and Link are checking on the Four Sword when Vaati, the evil wind mage who had been sealed within it, breaks free and captures her. Using the powers of the Four Sword, Link is eventually able to track down Vaati, seal him in the sword once again, and free Princess Zelda.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Some time after the events of Ocarina of Time, Hyrule is at peace under the rule of King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule. However, the seal keeping the evil king Ganondorf inside the Sacred Realm eventually weakens, and he once more invades Hyrule. This time, no hero appears to defeat Ganondorf, and the King and his people are forced to appeal to the gods, who cause the Great Flood. The people flee to the mountaintops that remain above the water and become the islands of the Great Sea. Hyrule is sealed away in a large bubble beneath the waves, and Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule remains there.
Many years later, Ganondorf and his monsters appear on the Great Sea and begins capturing Hylian girls, in an attempt to find the descendant of the Royal Family who has inherited the Triforce of Wisdom. Meanwhile, Link is guided on a quest to stop Ganondorf by Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule, who is acting in secret through a boat that he embodies, the King of Red Lions. He gives Link the Wind Waker, a magical baton which was once used by the King of Hyrule to conduct the sages. The King of Red Lions eventually leads Link beneath the sea to his ancient kingdom of Hyrule. Link acquires the Master Sword from Hyrule and attempts to use it against Ganondorf. However, Link finds that the Master Sword has lost its power. Tetra, a pirate captain that Link had met earlier, comes to rescue him, but is attacked by Ganondorf. At this point, Ganondorf's Triforce of Power resonates along with Tetra's pendant, which holds a half of the Triforce of Wisdom. With help from the Rito, Link and Tetra are able to escape, and the King of Red Lions guides them back to Hyrule. There, he reveals his true identity as the King of Hyrule. He then gives Tetra the half of the Triforce of Wisdom that he had been protecting, which reveals Tetra's true identity as Princess Zelda, heir to the Royal Family of Hyrule.
The King then tells Link what he must do to restore power to the Master Sword. After he is successful, Link returns to Hyrule just as Ganondorf captures Princess Zelda. Link confronts Ganondorf, but is defeated, and the three Triforce pieces from himself, Ganondorf, and Zelda are reunited into the wish granting whole. Before Ganondorf can make his wish for dominion of Hyrule, Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule appears and touches the Triforce first. He wishes that the remains of Hyrule be washed away and that Link and Tetra may have hope for the future, and tells Ganondorf to drown with Hyrule. As the water of the Great Sea begins to rain down upon Hyrule, Link and Tetra defeat Ganondorf. The King tells Link and Zelda that they must look to the future with hope. As Link and Zelda are safely transported out of the flooding Hyrule, Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule remains with his drowning kingdom. Afterward, Tetra, the only remaining member of the Royal Family, sets out with Link and her pirate crew to find a new land.
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
Zelda is the only member of the Royal Family seen in the game. She is captured by Shadow Link along with the rest of the Seven Maidens. After a long journey, Link is able to free Zelda and the other maidens. When Link finds the Dark Mirror, the source of the Shadow Links, Princess Zelda uses her magic to contain its power while Link defeats the remaining Shadow Links. Later, Link and Zelda encounter Ganon, the mastermind behind the troubles in Hyrule. Zelda creates a magical ball of light, which Link strikes Ganon with by firing an arrow through it. Ganon is then sealed in the Four Sword by Zelda and the other maidens, and peace returns to Hyrule.
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
The royal family of Hyrule consists of the King of Hyrule, Daltus, and Princess Zelda. The king is advised by Minister Potho. After the evil Vaati unleashes the monsters sealed inside in the Bound Chest, Princess Zelda's magical powers are revealed. Vaati turns Zelda to stone to keep her from interfering with his plans. After Vaati vanishes, King Daltus tells Link of the Minish, a tiny race of people skilled in magic who only reveal themselves to children. Daltus sends Link to find them in the hope that they can help against against Vaati. Later on, King Daltus is possessed by Vaati, who sends the king's vassals to search for the Light Force.
During his quest to restore the Piccori Blade, Link is visited by the ghost of King Gustaf, a past ruler of Hyrule, who summons him to the Royal Crypt. There, he gives Link the golden Kinstone he needs to proceed in his quest.
Link eventually learns that the Light Force that Vaati is seeking had been passed down the Royal Family of Hyrule and now resides in Princess Zelda. On his quest to stop Vaati from draining the Light Force from Zelda, he finds King Daltus locked in the castle's dungeon and releases him. Link defeats Vaati and frees Princess Zelda of her curse. She later uses the power of the Light Force and Vaati's Magic Cap to undo the evils that Vaati had done.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The only member of the Royal Family shown is Princess Zelda, although it is mentioned that they were at one time advised by Auru. After Zant invaded Hyrule and reached Hyrule Castle's throne room, Zelda had no choice but to relinquish power to him in order to save her people. Zant locked her in the castle's tower, where she remains until Ganondorf returns to Hyrule. When Link and Midna confront Ganondorf, he possesses Princess Zelda and uses her body to fight them. Midna is able to free Zelda of Ganondorf's influence however, and the princess aids Link during another phase of the battle.
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
As the direct sequel to The Wind Waker, the game only features one member of the Royal Family, Tetra, who is also known as Princess Zelda, though she is reluctant to go by that name.
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
The Royal Family rules over New Hyrule after its founding by Link, Tetra, and her pirate crew. Upon discovering the land, the native Lokomo tribe gifted them with the Spirit Flute, which became an heirloom of the Royal family. During the game the only member of the royal family seen is Princess Zelda, though numerous references are made to the ancestors who preceeded her, including Tetra. Teacher serves as Princess Zelda's adviser, while Chancellor Cole assists Zelda in ruling the Kingdom. A stain glass window depicting Tetra can be seen in Hyrule Castle.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Princess Zelda appears as the ruler of Hyrule aided by her elderly attendant Impa. She is eventually turned into a painting by Yuga and taken to Lorule Castle. It is eventually revealed that the misguided Princess Hilda, Zelda's Lorulean counterpart and a member of the Royal Family of Lorule, had plotted with Yuga to steal Hyrule's Triforce, as the Triforce of Lorule had been destroyed by Hilda's predecessors to end the cycle of conflicts over Lorule's Triforce. Princess Hilda manipulates Link to rescue the Seven Sages in order for him to acquire the Triforce of Courage so she and Yuga-Ganon can obtain it. Hilda takes Princess Zelda's Triforce of Wisdom and orders Yuga-Ganon to attack Link. When Yuga-Ganon is defeated, Hilda commands him to give her the Triforce of Power, however Yuga reveals he never cared about Lorule and had been plotting to take the Triforce for himself and use it to remake Lorule in his own image. Yuga-Ganon then steals the Triforce of Wisdom, gaining a stronger form due to possessing two pieces of the Triforce. Seeing Link in trouble, Princess Zelda gives Link the Bow of Light which he uses to defeat Yuga-Ganon. The Triforce of Wisdom is returned to Zelda and she is freed from the painting, however Hilda remains determined to take Hyrule's Triforce. Fortunately, Ravio arrives and reveals himself to be Link's Lorulean counterpart and former servant of Hilda's who left her due to his inability to confront her over her decision to steal Hyrule's Triforce. Inspired by his interactions with Link, Ravio convinces Hilda what she is doing is wrong. Remorseful, Hilda uses the remaining power in Ravio's Bracelet to send them back to Hyrule. Feeling sorry for the plight of their Lorulean counterparts, Link and Zelda wish that Lorule's Triforce be restored.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
One hundred years before the Great Calamity, the Kingdom of Hyrule was ruled by King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule and his daughter Princess Zelda.
The Great Calamity
Many years prior, it was foretold that the return of Calamity Ganon was inevitable. This sparked a search for the fabled ancient Sheikah relics, including the Guardians and the four Divine Beasts. Many believed them to be simply a legend, but they were discovered after being excavated throughout Hyrule. King Rhoam formed a group of exceptionally skilled warriors referred to as Champions. Commanded by Princess Zelda, four elite warriors were selected from across the kingdom and were tasked with the duty of piloting the Divine Beasts to assist Link, Princess Zelda's appointed Knight and the Hylian Champion selected by the Master Sword. One hundred years prior to the events of Breath of the Wild, while the Champions were making preparations to battle Calamity Ganon, he reappeared and devastated the Kingdom of Hyrule by taking control of the Guardians and the Divine Beasts, killing four of the Champions in the process.
Link, wielding the Master Sword, was severely injured by the Guardians. King Rhoam was eventually killed, leaving his daughter Zelda the last surviving member of the Royal Family. With the help of Purah and Robbie, Zelda placed Link inside the Shrine of Resurrection in order to recover. Princess Zelda took the Master Sword to Korok Forest and placed it under the protection of the Great Deku Tree. Having heard the Master Sword speak to her that her destiny was not finished, Zelda resolved to face Calamity Ganon on her own and ended up using her power to seal Calamity Ganon within Hyrule Castle. Meanwhile, her father's spirit chose to watch over Link and guide him once he was awake.
The Great Plateau
One hundred years later, Link is awakened by the voice of Princess Zelda, who is still struggling to contain Ganon. Link has lost his memories, and Zelda guides him to the Sheikah Slate. While exploring the Great Plateau, Link encounters a mysterious Old Man, who requests Link to explore the Shrines on the plateau and bring back four Spirit Orbs. At the ruins of the Temple of Time, he reveals his true identity as the spirit of King Rhoam, and reminds Link about the Great Calamity. He advises Link to seek out Impa at Kakariko Village and rewards Link with his Paraglider in order to leave the Great Plateau. Having finished his task, King Rhoam's spirit leaves the physical world.
Other appearances
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Hyrule Warriors
The only member of the Royal Family to appear in the game, is Princess Zelda who is both the reigning monarch of Hyrule and the Supreme Leader of the Hyrulean Forces. She is served by her faithful servant, Impa a Sheikah Warrior and General of the Hyrulean Forces. Like previous incarnations, Zelda is the bearer of the Triforce of Wisdom. She also possesses the Goddess's Harp from Skyward Sword which she wields as her weapon in her Shiek persona, which is apparently an heirloom of the Royal Family of Hyrule (possibly passed down from the Zelda that appears in Skyward Sword). Zelda also has a weapon called the Royal Dominion Rod which is a Dominion Rod has the seal of the Royal Family incorporated in its design indicating it may have been created for use by members of the Royal Family.
Hyrule Warriors Legends
In addition to the Hyrule Warriors incarnation of Princess Zelda, the pirate Tetra and King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule from The Wind Waker appear as playable characters. This marks the first time in which a incarnation of the King of Hyrule appears as a playable character.
Through DLC, Toon Zelda from Spirit Tracks becomes playable.
Subseries warning: Subseries information ends here.
Non-canonical appearances
Non-canon warning: This article or section contains non-canonical information that is not considered to be an official part of the Legend of Zelda series and should not be considered part of the overall storyline.
Link: The Faces of Evil
King Harkinian and Princess Zelda appear in the beginning and ending FMVs in the game. They are advised by Gwonam.
Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon
In the introduction sequence, Harkinian, the King of Hyrule, travels to Hyrule to help his cousin, Duke Onkled, whose lands of Gamelon are being attacked by the evil forces of Ganon. After a month of absence, Link goes to Gamelon to help the King, complying to his request when he left. After another month, when both Link and King Harkinian have not sent word, Princess Zelda, Harkinian's daughter, decides to go to Gamelon to find Link and her father.
It is later revealed that Onkled betrayed his cousin and had him imprisoned, and sided with Ganon in exchange for power. Link was sealed into a mirror by Ganon with the use of magic. Zelda then manages to free both her father and Link, and Onkled is made to "scrub all the floors in Hyrule".
The Legend of Zelda animated series
The Royal Family consists of King Harkinian and Princess Zelda. They are advised by Doof.
Valiant Comics
The Royal Family consists of King Harkinian and Princess Zelda.
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
The Royal Family of Hyrule does not appear in this game, however, the game's end implies its creation. Zelda, not as a princess, but as the daughter of Skyloft's Headmaster, and Link stay on the surface after the destruction of Demise, and are implied to form the kingdom of Hyrule, presumably with Link and Zelda as the ruling family. The sacred status of the Hyrule Royal Family may be seen as its connection to Hylia.
It may also explain why the Sheikah eventually became the protectors of the Royal Family as they were originally the servants of the Goddess Hylia.
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Just curious if you have anything on Lucy Ann Reed. She was the sister of my gggrandmother Catherine Reed Fritz. Their parents were Henry Reed and Catherine Alloway/Altoway perhaps Galloway? Still trying to figure that out.
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Waterfront Transportation Assessment
Project Overview
The Waterfront Transportation Assessment (WTA) has been a coordinated land use and transportation planning effort that began in late 2012 and was led by the SFMTA. Completed in August 2015, the WTA was conceived in response to a series of similarly timed major development proposals along the waterfront, all of which will depend on a safe and reliable transportation system to sustain them. Instead of transportation planning exclusively for any particular development, the Assessment looked at the transportation network within, between, and beyond the development boundaries to establish a comprehensive study area. The WTA included both qualitative and quantitative analyses. It incorporated extensive stakeholder outreach, and entailed regular citywide and regional coordination.
Upcoming meetings
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Latest updates
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Project Details
Project overview
The Waterfront Transportation Assessment (WTA) was a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) led transportation and land use planning effort that began in late 2012. Wrapped up in Summer 2015, the WTA was conceived as a evaluation that focused on the comprehensive transportation network, in response to a series of similarly timed major development proposals along the waterfront, all which will depend on a safe and reliable transportation system to sustain them. The WTA included both qualitative and quantitative analyses. It incorporated extensive stakeholder outreach, and entailed regular citywide and regional coordination.
The WTA was a comprehensive planning process through which the SFMTA worked in close partnership the Planning Department, the Port, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, the community, and development sponsors. In addition to being led by stakeholder input, the WTA was also guided by key city policies and lessons learned from past planning efforts.
Phase 1: Transportation Goals & Strategies
Phase 1 of WTA looked at the transportation network along the entire waterfront to understand how the study area is served by all modes, to identify existing deficiencies, and to conceive of strategies that could would serve current needs and address future demand. It was governed by key city transportation policies that have been developed as part of multiple local and regional plans, including the San Francisco General Plan, the Central Waterfront Area / East SoMa Plan, the San Francisco Transportation Plan, the Port of San Francisco Waterfront Land Use Plan, the MTC Transportation 2035 Plan, the BART Strategic Plan, the WETA Transition Plan, the Caltrain Strategic Plan, and the BCDC Strategic Plan.
It was guided by past planning projects, particularly the 34th America's Cup People Plan[1], that set a precedent for transportation preparedness response to the episodic nature of waterfront destinations. The success of the People Plan in facilitating continuous multimodal transportation connections and preventing confusion and gridlock during one of the busiest event times in San Francisco was due namely to its transparent planning process, intradepartmental and regional coordination, and strategic multimodal transportation planning.
Phase 2: Transportation Needs & Solutions Analysis
Phase 2 was established to evaluate the transportation shortfalls in the waterfront transportation network, and to identify solutions to manage current and serve future transportation demand. The technical analysis was completed using advanced modeling tools by the SFCTA and their consultant. Phase 2 utilized a technical approach using travel demand corridors in San Francisco and regionally to identify a more holistic understanding of the root causes to transportation challenges in the waterfront. Understanding the root causes, allowed the WTA team to recommend transportation solutions.
The WTA's technical analysis (Phase 2) asked:
What would it take for the city to accommodate forecast increase in trips in 25 years in the SoMa/Mission Bay/Central Waterfront (Study Area)?
And it offered 3 answers:
- Continue to develop and implement localized network improvements
- Advocate for full funding for critical transit capacity investments
- Pursue next steps to define promising new infrastructure and policy
[1] Online: https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/People%20Plan%20Final%20140129.pdf
The Assessment:
- Developed smart partnerships with community stakeholders, local and regional transportation providers and project sponsors;
- Used lessons from America's Cup;
- Considered timing of key planned transportation improvements;
- Developed preliminary Transportation Strategies in advance of major Project EIRs; and
- Conducted technical analysis to understand current and future demand, and to make recommendations to respond to that demand.
Some of the WAterfront Transportation Assessment's "Strategies to Solutions" include:
- Mission Bay Could Have Ferry Service Come 2022 - Planning
- The Bay Bridge Approach Enforcement Pilot - Implentation
- The Embarcadero Enhancement Project - Funding
- The BART Embarcadero-Montgomery Capacity Improvement Studay - Funding
- The Rincon Hill Transit Study - Implementation
- The 55 16th Street (interim 22 Fillmore) to Mission Bay - Implementation (Jan 2015)
RELEVANT LOCAL & regional trasnportation planning:
- The SFMTA 5-Year Capital Improvement Program
- The SFMTA 2-Year Capital Budget
- San Francisco Bay Area Core Capacity Transit Study
COMMUNITY outreach:
The Assessment included extensive outreach to stakeholders throughout the city in the form of transportation meetings, workshops, presentations and an Open House.
Between 2011 and 2012, the SFMTA collected feedback from the community on transportation to create the "People Plan" for the America's Cup event. The feedback from America's Cup translated into the initial outreach for the Waterfront Transportation Assessment kick-off meeting on October 30, 2012. Since that meeting, the Waterfront Transportation Assesssment led and/or attended dozens of meetings with community stakeholders, development project stakeholders, advisory committees, advocacy groups, neighborhood and businsess associations, and homeowners associations.
Please visit the Documents & Reports link to view more information and find notes and presentations from past meetings.
Major Projects (partial list)
Our Partners
Our primary coordination and communications include a host of partnerships with community stakeholders, local and regional transportation providers and project sponsors. This list includes the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, The Port of San Francisco, The Planning Department, BART, Caltrain, WETA, MTC and various other community and project development partners.
For More Information
- The Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII) - Mission Bay
- Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) - Warriors Mission Bay Pavillion
- San Francisco Planning Department: Environmental Planning
- Port of SF Seawall Lot 337 & Pier 48 Mission Rock
- Port of SF Pier 70 Area
- SFMTA Transportation Demand Management
Upcoming Meetings
No upcoming meetings have been posted.
Past Meetings
Aug 12Wednesday, August 12, 2015,6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Nov 19Public Meeting: SoMa-Mission Bay-Central Waterfront Transportation Needs & Solutions Analysis (Waterfront Transportation Assessment "Phase 2")Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 6:00 pm
Nov 18Tuesday, November 18, 2014,6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Nov 21Thursday, November 21, 2013, 7:00 pm
Oct 03Waterfront Transportation Assessment - Port of San Francisco Piers 30-32 CAC Transportation SubcommitteeThursday, October 3, 2013, 6:30 pm
Aug 21Piers 30-32 Transportation Subcommittee at the Port of San Francisco, Pier 1, The Embarcadero, Bayside Conference Room, San FranciscoWednesday, August 21, 2013, 6:30 pm
Jul 24Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 6:30 pm
Mar 26Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 12:30 pm
Dec 04Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 6:30 pm
Oct 30Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 6:30 pm
No updates at this time.
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"Yahoo is a very large company but we can't build every applications that a user might want," a Yahoo representative said in an interview. "You can imagine tens of thousands of niche applications (springing) from Yahoo Mail." "Software developers have traditionally kept careful control of the underlying programming code of their products and allowed outsiders to make only incremental improvements. In recent years, Web developers have opened up that process to encourage outsiders far deeper access to the underlying code. Open applications like Google Maps and Yahoo's own Flickr have inspired a new wave of programming in which developers can combine software features from different companies to create what are known as 'mashups' -- hybrid Web products"
"Yahoo made the announcement ahead of a 24-hour Yahoo Hack Day, where it had invited more than 500 mostly youthful outside programmers to build new applications using Yahoo services. Considering the different needs of its huge user base (257 million people use Yahoo Mail), Yahoo has decided it can't build or buy enough innovation, so they are enlisting the worldwide developer community. The code will be released late in 2006. Yahoo notes that there are 'no security risks' since they keep absolute control of usernames and passwords."
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Good to know thanks. I can't believe they would make a mechanical fan if they didn't have to. Maybe cheaper for them to produce?
What you have to understand is cars are used in all kinds of different climates. They used a mechanical fan in autos because they probably thought that, although it was overkill for someone living in Wisconsin, it would barely keep up on a 120 degree day in the arizona desert. Also what needs to be taken into consideration is that fan isnt only helping cool your engine, its also cooling your auto tranny, which runs at higher temps... this is what is scary.
I've got an auto and I've ran no mechanical fan with no electric fan (just the puller fan in front of the car) in the Texas summer on 105 degree+ days, and have had no engine overheating for almost a year now without my mech. fan. Whether it be stop and go, highway, or idle, I never had a problem... I'm not worried about my engine, its my tranny that I'm worried about. The reason kpeng had a prob is because he's boooosted.
But I'm so glad someone fiiiinally decided to just hook up an oem electric fan to see if it worked, I cant believe it took us this long to figure it out! lol
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The A.J. Meerwald is a Delaware Bay oyster schooner, a distinct vessel that evolved to meet the needs of the local oyster fishery. Launched in 1928, the A.J. Meerwald was one of hundreds of schooners build along South Jersey's Delaware Bayshore before the decline of the shipbuilding industry that coincided with the Great Depression.
1928: The Meerwald family of South Dennis commissioned Charles H. Stowman & Sons shipyard to build the A.J. Meerwald. She was a bald-headed (without topmasts), gaf-rigged oyster dredge. Her construction is "oak on oak": oak planks laid on oak frames as was the tradition in Dorchester built vessels. She has relatively light scantings, no knees, and no horntimber, also characteristic of Dorchester schooners.
1942: In June, the Maritime Commission commandeered the A.J. Meerwald under the War Powers Act. She was turned over to the US Coast Guard who outfitted her as a fireboat. The vessel underwent a dramatic change at this time, with most of her sailing rig being removed.
1947: In January, the A.J. Meerwald was returned to the Meerwalds. Eight months later, they sold the vessel to Clyde A. Philips who used her as an oyster dredge under power.
1957: The oyster industry crashed with the sudden appearance of the parasite MSx.
1959: Ownership passed to Cornelius (Nicky) Campbell who outfitted her for surf clamming. She operated primarily as a clam dredge into the late 1970's. She was essentially retired until her donation the Schooner Project in 1989.
The A.J. Meerwald was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.


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STEVE Rhodes has revealed he does have a warchest at his disposal to help fire Worcestershire back into the top-flight of the LV= County Championship — but insists he will only spend the money on the right players.
With Vikram Solanki 's considerable salary off the wage bill as the veteran batsman has opted to join Surrey for next season, as well as James Cameron retiring, New Road director of cricket Rhodes does have spare cash in his budget.
However, seeing as Worcestershire and austerity have gone hand-in-hnad for such a considerable time, the County chief isn't going to become frivilous overnight.
He explained: "With Vikram moving on, it does mean there is some money there to spend, but to be honest, the last thing we want to do is spend money for the sake of it. "We'd rather save that money for when we need it if the right player isn't out there at the moment.
"With the batting, we've lost Vikram, who has been a stalwart of the club, as well as James and Jack Manuel, but there is not a lot of real quality out there as a senior figure to replace them.
"Therefore, why not go with the likes of Alexei Kervezee and Moeen Ali, who will certainly be in our middle order next season? The time has come for them to stand up and say 'I need to be consistent and get my 1,000 runs' and, if that happens, we'll be winning games of cricket."
Rhodes also confirmed that wicketkeeper Ben Scott has been released and admits the club haven't yet decided if they will bring in another gloveman or procede with youngster Ben Cox as their first choice behind the timbers.
The former England stumper added: "We haven't made any decisions about wicketkeeper for next year yet, but I think Ben has gone OK in a couple of games this season.
"The important thing for Coxy was to go back to the seconds and, in terms of his development as a player, he was probably a little bit rushed into the first team.
"He went back to the second team and played extremely well, scoring good runs and earned his opportunity to come back into the first team.
"He has now served some sort of apprenticeship, which he hadn't done before. "But does that mean he can now get a guaranteed place? I would say 'no' but, at this stage, there is just him on the staff and that is something we'll look at."
Rhodes said: "Ben Scott is an experienced player and we needed runs from him, but sadly he didn't deliver that. "He played really well in the match against Lancashire, but that was the only real runs we saw. "When we kept having late order collapses, we needed to do something rather than just accept it.
"It was a tough decision to leave Ben out of the side and it was also a tough decision to release him, but he said to me that he half expected it. We have to move forward as a club."