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The Children's Advocacy Center of East Central Missouri is now up and running in its new location — 14 South Washington Ave. in Union.
The center, which serves Franklin, Crawford, Osage and Gasconade counties, previously was located in Sullivan. That building was bought out and the space turned into a communications center, said Kathy Carr, children's advocate.
Carr said the Union location will make visiting the center more convenient for families.
"When a hotline call is made, where a child lives is where they go (for the report)," she explained. "Most of our clients come from Franklin County."
Last year, the center saw close to 100 kids from Franklin County, the highest number of the four counties. The second highest was Crawford County, with approximately 30 children interviewed.
"We don't want the children to have to travel a long way to tell their stories," she said.
The primary purpose of the center is conducting forensic interviews who allege child abuse or neglect. The interviews are part of investigations for the children's division and law enforcement, Carr said.
The new center is more than twice as large as the previous location with space for storage and filing. And, it has more bathrooms for clients and employees.
A open house is planned at a later date.
Carr said new digital recording equipment has been delivered and the first interview in the new location was held earlier this week.
Tracy Wiecking, assistant CEO of Comtrea, the parent organization of the Children's Advocacy Center of East Central Missouri, said the previous recording equipment was outdated.
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Wiecking said the center is thankful to the community, which helped chip in for renovations at the new building.
The Franklin County Community Resource Board donated $15,000 toward the renovation, which included creating an office space for staff, the building of a file room and other upgrades to make the workspace efficient.
The Franklin County Area United Way donated $1,000 toward the cost of the new recording equipment.
Additionally, the building owner agreed to a tax credit as a donation for part of the monthly rent.
Fidelity, which bought their previous building, also made a donation toward the renovation.
"Now that we're getting established we're in the parameters of our regular budget," Wiecking said. "We've been very fortunate to have the assistance and support of the community."
Wiecking said that although the move was not planned, the transition has gone well because of the community support.
Dinner, Dance
The Children's Advocacy of East Central Missouri will host its 12th annual sweetheart dinner and dance Saturday, March 8, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Washington.
Cocktail hour and opening of the silent auction will be at 6 p.m. and dinner will be at 7 p.m.
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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I've been married 27 long years. My husband has never forgiven me for walking out on him 20 years ago when I became depressed after my mother died and I did not get the support I needed from him. But I have forgiven him for his physical, verbal and emotional abuse, as well as his gambling and drinking.
We don't do anything together other than watch TV. We haven't had sex in over two years. He never compliments me. He is hard to please.
I was going to leave in June but got cold feet. I must be crazy. — Stayed Anyway, Winnipeg
Dear Stayed: Life doesn't have to be lonely if you decide to leave this cold marriage. Twenty-seven years is enough of anyone's time. Why throw away another year over fear of the unknown? It's likely both of you need to be free, although people who have meted out the violence tend not to feel as out-of-love as the person who was beaten. Oddly enough, some abusers are very dependent and cry very convincingly during a breakup.
Don't confuse the crocodile tears with a reason to stay. Since you know you don't want to be with this man who has hurt and abused you, make a solid Plan B. Determine what kind of money you would have, if you will need more work, where you could live. Perhaps you could move closer to your kids and grandchildren? What kinds of hobbies and clubs would you join to meet new people? It's common for coupled-up friends to fall away.
Maybe you could join Adventures for Successful Singles (204-775-3484), which offers multiple social and sports activities and a separate course called Rebuilding After Your Relationship Ends for people in your position.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I went to bed early last night after working a double shift. I woke about three hours later hearing my wife crying. I quietly went down the carpeted hall and came up behind her as she was talking on the phone and I heard her say, "But why won't you see me again? I thought you loved me. You're married too!" She was begging! I grabbed the phone and said, "Who are you?" and the person hung up. I demanded my wife tell me who her lover was. I couldn't have been more shocked at her answer. It was her best female friend. She confessed they have had an ongoing affair for the last year. This is the woman in the couple we have played cards with every week. We've even been on holidays together. I knew the two women were very close, but I had no idea. I don't even know how to fight this. My wife is free of her "lover" but her heart doesn't belong to me — Broken and Hopeless, Tuxedo
Dear Broken: Is the affair over with this woman? Could it be a one-time thing or is this a new lifestyle for your wife? Maybe she doesn't even know yet. Does the other husband know about it? I'm guessing he may have found out, and that's why his wife was calling to halt the relationship with your wife. You need to give this time to process this — and it may well be a temporary breakup. In the meanwhile, see a counsellor or psychologist on an emergency basis to express your feelings without censoring them. If the two women love each other and decide they want to be together, then you know what has to be done. If you can't bear feeling second best to an ex-affair partner, then you also have to go. But it could end up a variety of other ways. If you love her deeply and there are children, don't pack your bags just yet.
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As our boat pulls onto a quiet, pebbly beach leading up to lush forest, I can feel my ill-founded prejudice starting to melt.
No, it's not just a rush of blood to the head that motivates some people to buy an island. It's the warm seawater around your ankles when you plant your feet for the first time.
For some, owning an island is a status symbol, although the Connole family, who own Victor Island off the north Queensland coast near Mackay, say it's more about quality time with family.
"It's a privilege to own it," says Tom Connole, son of its owners Denis and Vicky. "It's just been a place to get away." They are now hoping to sell it, and invited Life and Leisure to experience island living for a night.
We walk up the beach and meander through landscaped gardens to the big timber house, where we learn caretaker Jed has been out spearfishing that morning. He's returned with three big blue parrotfish and a crayfish. The trick, he says, is to keep your catch close to your body so the sharks don't steal it.
Denis and Vicky Connole first landed on the 2.5-hectare island 10 years ago for an inspection. The previous owner went bust after building the house. Administrators had taken over and left it untended. The grass was waist high and vandals had smashed the windows.
They bought it with another family for $500,000, fixed up the four-bedroom home and caretaker's cottage, air-lifted in a new generator, floated over water tanks and installed solar and wind power generators.
We pass the late afternoon with cheese, crackers and champagne as the sun sets over the mainland. In the distance to the north, cargo ships wait to be loaded with coal.
I suggest it must be a bit inconvenient sometimes without any shops around, and I'm told there is a general store at the small town of Half-Tide Bay, about 10 minutes on a speedboat. Mackay is about 45 minutes away.
Private islands are usually the exclusive domain of the rich.
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The Connoles are asking $1.95 million, less than the price of many Sydney homes. But if the previous owner's experience is anything to go by, costs can add up.
It is rare to find a freehold island in Australia and the Connoles own a 25-year leasehold title with owners, the Department of Natural Resources. There is a $30,000 lease-renewal fee each year. Renovations cost more because of the higher transport costs, and a full-time caretaker is needed for maintenance and security. The owners also pay full council rates without any services. And did I mention rising seas and cyclones?
Because the market for islands is small, they can be hard to sell. Victor Island has been up for sale for at least a year.
A Hong Kong-based family discovered there can be unexpected pitfalls with island ownership after they paid $2.5 million last year for Pig Island, also known as Burraga Island, in the NSW Shoalhaven area. The 121-hectare sand island has a house and grazing land. The problem is, it is very slowly drifting down the river. Making matters worse, a legality in the Coastal Protection Act of 1979 means the property boundaries are not moving with it.
But all of this is far from your mind when you're on Victor Island, eating freshly caught crayfish.
Jed cut it down the middle, smothered it with lemon and butter and barbecued it along with local prawns and steaks. I landed a hunk of its tender flesh on my plate that was almost the size of a tennis ball.
Tom says the island was an emotional purchase, not an investment. It was worth it because it regularly brought all the far-flung branches of his family together.
Others on the market at the moment range from $850,000 to $15 million. They include nine-hectare Turtle Island, south of Victor, which is freehold. It's listed on an overseas website at $6.75 million and comes with a four-bedroom, five-bathroom luxury home, pool, private jetty and helipad.
Richard Vanhoff is a real estate agent specialising in Australian islands. He has 11 on his books, including Victor Island, and agrees he's got one of the world's best jobs – except pay days are far apart. He only sells one or two a year.
"It takes a lot of work to sell an island," Vanhoff says.
He says an island rarely makes money, even when – like Victor Island – it is operated as a holiday rental.
"The buyer inevitably asks and I have got to tell him straight out it's not a good business move. It's not generating money, but it's generating a lot of pleasure and that's what they have to get through their heads."
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Nick's partner Gus Nason thinks Nick may be going slowly crazy trying to retire as a reclusive best-selling author. Gus assumes even with Nick's wife Rachel pregnant, and walking Jean and Deke the dog to school, Nick will become a danger if not pursuing what he does best: killing people. Gus quickly regrets his influence over his partner, when the first time out of the retirement chute, Nick's contract on Sheik Abdul Nazari begins a chain of events he never envisioned.
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Nick is my favorite - his interactions with Gus, especially are great. Although a little extreme, his interactions with Jean and Rachel are also pretty good.
To my way of thinking, David Gilmore ruined this book! Do the editors not listen to the completed recordings? If so, DeLeo needs to find a new editor. This narration was so far off the mark as to be pitiful. I nearly scrapped the book several times, due expressly to the poor narrator! This man could take some much needed lessons from the likes of Dick Hill and Susan Erickson.
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On a weekday evening in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, a stream of families and young couples line up to pass through the security detectors at the Centaurus Mall, a five-floor behemoth behind which loom the undulating green Margalla Hills.
The project is not without risks, including being a potential target for terrorism and large-scale tremors. But there are metal detectors that shoppers must step through and X-ray machines where visitors place their purses and bags. And to protect the mall against earthquakes, like the 7.6-magnitude disaster of 2005, the Centaurus project claims to be resilient to quakes up to a magnitude of 9.5.
The greater gamble, though, is whether in a country plagued by terrorism and an economy crippled by electricity blackouts, there will be enough locals to embrace the therapeutic value of shopping.
Centaurus' chief executive officer, Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan, bats away any skepticism. "The mall was created for everyone – for all the classes. We've got people selling Hugo Boss, Armani, Versace and we've got people selling local textiles and local brands as well. It's a perfect mix," he said.
Long accustomed to outdoor shopping arcades, Pakistanis are being offered air-conditioned shopping in a megamall – filling a major gap in the retail sector in Islamabad and the nearby city of Rawalpindi.
"It is our only entertainment," joked Centaurus regular and teacher Uzma Humayoun Khan, who brought her teenagers along for the visit.
But this is also a country where the minimum wage is about $100 a month. A megamall with designer wear, watches and shoes is out of reach for many.
The initial average of 10,000 visitors per weekday has doubled over four months, the mall says.
Many of the expected 280 clothing, shoe and fast-food shops are already open – including a Second Cup drawing coffee enthusiasts and Canadian expats. Other stores with a Canadian connection – Marble Slab Creamery and Yogen Früz – are also expected to open, said Mr. Khan.
With Ramadan set to begin next week, the mall will stay open daily for three extra hours – until 2 a.m. The extended hours, as well as the opening of a five-theatre cinema and a 30,000-square-foot amusement area with bumper cars and video games, are expected to result in a further spike in visitors.
For retailers, however, the increased traffic at the mall, which opened in February, hasn't necessarily translated to sales.
"There's lot of window shoppers, there's not a lot of buyers," said Izzah Ahmed, owner of a smoothie outlet called Juicy Gossip.
"The rents are expensive. I'm paying 165,000 [rupees] per month [$1,730] – which for this little tiny place, it's costing me a lot," she said, adding that her shop is 53 square feet in a section of the mall where some stores have yet to open. However, Ms. Ahmed remains confident sales will pick up.
Glitzy shopping malls – including an earlier project in Karachi facing the Arabian Sea – distill what many Pakistanis wish their country could be: an example of ambition and planning.
But the Centaurus is an electricity-hungry project in a power-starved country. It has to rely on massive backup generators that fire up during scheduled blackouts every other hour. And the city is building a separate grid station to meet the mall's electricity demand.
The project was designed by Dubai-based architects, project managed by a Kuwait-based firm and built with the help of Chinese cranes and workers. The shopping centre is the first phase of a project that will include apartments and office space in the three 32-storey towers that sit on top of the mall.
Mr. Khan sees it as a Pakistani landmark that his family will replicate in other cities.
"When we [Pakistanis] travel the world, we see a lot great things. When we come back to Pakistan, we ask: Why can we not have something similar here for people to be a part and for people to enjoy themselves?" he said.
Fauzia Aziz Minallah, a local author and artist, has opposed the project since it was first announced more than seven years ago.
"When they were promoting Centaurus, do you know what they called Centaurus? 'Identity of Pakistan,'" said Ms. Minallah, with a laugh, adding that Pakistan's identity lies in the ancient Buddhist ruins in nearby Taxila and in the archeological site of Mohenjo Daro, a planned city that existed 3,000 years ago and is a record of the achievements of the Indus valley civilization.
She finds Centaurus aesthetically unappealing. "I don't like all this concrete," said Ms. Minallah, who has written books about Islamabad's cultural history and its trees.
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China is on an anti-pornography raid.
The anti-pornography "Cleaning the Web 2014" campaign in April has seen the closure of over 100 websites and thousands of (3,300 to be precise) social media accounts with pornographic or lewd content.
The campaign, which was initiated by the Central Propaganda Department (CPD), serves as a response to the spread in pornography in China, which is illegal.
"Disseminating pornographic information online severely harms the physical and mental health of minors, and seriously corrupts social ethos," stated the news agency Xinhua, quoting the State Internet Information Office.
China may be on to something here.InEffects of Prolonged Consumption of Pornography, the last word was that regular exposure to pornographic material triggers certain negative sociological effects. This includes a diminished value for long-term, monogamous relationships, and an accentuated libido which increases the instance of sexual violence.
Of the large body of research that exists on the subject, most studies have found pornography harmless.
A recent examination by Ferguson and Hartley (2009) argues that "it is time to discard the hypothesis that pornography contributes to increased sexual assault behavior ". They conclude that controlled studies have been unable to establish links between pornography and sexual violence.
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This is a specialization of the University of Twente's Master's programme in Computer Science.
Information technology is becoming increasingly embedded in our society. This also means that it is getting easier to collect more data about ourselves and our environment. The science concerned with the 'discovery' of information from large volumes of unstructured data is called 'data science'. It has high practical relevance, as the generation and application of information is an important economic activity. Data science techniques can be used in information systems to maintain an information model of the dynamic environment, e.g. based on real-time sensor data. These information models, in turn, can be used to offer tailored services to the users in the environment. Isn't that smart?
The Data Science & Technology specialization at the University of Twente provides basic courses for understanding data science, smart services, and how these fields are related through modern information systems. It also offers advanced courses that address the challenges of this cross-disciplinary field, including big data processing, real-time analytics, information quality, and information system and service design.
What is Data science & Technology?
Services are a powerful abstraction of technical and business systems that facilitate the use of such systems without knowledge of their internal workings. The service concept is widely used for understanding and building complex technical systems in many areas.
An important class of services is that of information systems. Information systems capture, transmit, store, retrieve and display information. They support processes in business organizations and daily activities of human users. These information systems may comprise many subsystems that are geographically distributed and without centralized control. As such, they can be considered as a network of loosely coupled services, each corresponding to a subsystem and contributing to some target composite service. Information systems in today's organizations deal with large volumes of data, including structured data, sensor data, multimedia data, and geographic data. Managing these large volumes, aggregating data from different sources and extracting useful information are increasingly strategic capabilities for these organizations. Such capabilities have only become possible with the development of new techniques and tools. These techniques and tools are produced by what nowadays is known as the data science field.
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Data science tackles the challenges of big data, real-time analytics, data modeling and smart information use. Scientific and economic progress is increasingly powered by our capabilities to explore big data sets. A key challenge of data science is to use big data sets of varying quality that are readily available, instead of small datasets that require careful, manual work. As a student participating in the Data Science & Technology specialization, you will work with data created every hour, minute, second and millisecond, rather than data that require (laborious) manual annotation and manual cleaning. These big data sets are typically acquired by the unobtrusive monitoring of large populations of users in an everyday setting – rather than by monitoring small groups of carefully selected subjects in a laboratory setting. Data acquired by unobtrusive monitoring can be used in information systems to make a variety of smart services possible, based on real-time data analytics, complex event processing and context-aware process adaptation. The methodological challenges of big data analysis and smart services come with a number of technical challenges, and the need for developing new methods, models and tools. The challenges are:
- To process datasets that are too big to be handled by a single machine or by traditional tools within a reasonable amount of time;
- To process streaming data for real-time monitoring and tracking of events and real-time identification of trends;
- To extract reliable conclusions and models from unreliable data, and from data integrated from multiple sources of varying quality;
- To combine the above in smart services that bring added value to end users at the right time and at the right place.
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The Data Science & Technology Master's specialization at the University of Twente connects the important fields of data science and smart services via information systems. With data science, you will learn how to dig for value in data by analyzing various data sources. With smart service engineering, you will learn how to design services that effectively use system capabilities to satisfy dynamic user needs and requirements. Information systems that can use the results of data science to get more value out of data may turn current services into smart services. Already, we can see many applications of this in pervasive health, well-being, compliance management, intelligent transportation, logistics, business intelligence etc.
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The Data Science & Technology Master's specialization at the University of Twente distinguishes itself from similar specializations at other universities by offering:
- A unique combination of expertise in computer science, data science, and service science;
- Collaboration with leading international companies, like Google, Twitter and Yahoo;
- A local infrastructure for the analysis of very large datasets, accessible to students;
- Challenging big data and data analytics applications in smart services for pervasive health, logistics, and other areas.
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Feyenoord have been boosted by the return of Pieter Collen to full training.
Feyenoord have been boosted by the return of Pieter Collen to full training.
The Belgian defender has missed the last three months with a shoulder injury and lung problem.
Collen missed out on last weekend's trip to Twente, but may feature against Utrecht on Sunday.
Royston Drenthe and Tom Vincken are also back in training, although they have not yet linked up with the first-team squad.
Meanwhile, Excelsior's Luigi Bruins, who will join Feyenoord in the summer, damaged ankle ligaments against Groningen last Friday.
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First Majestic Silver Corp. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of mineral properties with a focus on silver projects in Mexico. The company owns and operates six silver producing mines, including the Santa Elena Silver/Gold Mine, La Encantada Silver Mine, La Parrilla Silver Mine, Del Toro Silver Mine, San Martin Silver Mine, and the La Guitarra Silver Mine. It also holds interests in the Plomosas Silver Project situated in Sinaloa State; La Luz Silver Project located in San Luis Potosi State; Jalisco group of Properties situated in various mining districts in Jalisco, Mexico; Ermitano Silver Project; and La Joya Silver Project in the city of Durango, Mexico. In addition, First Majestic Silver Corp. engages in the retail of coins and bullions in Canada; and sells silver metal in Europe. The company was formerly known as First Majestic Resource Corp. and changed its name to First Majestic Silver Corp. in November 2006. First Majestic Silver Corp. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
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Revenue. Company's revenue (or sales) is always the starting point of any cash flow forecast. In the AG stock intrinsic value calculation we used $ million for the last fiscal year's total revenue generated by First Majestic Silver. The default revenue input number comes from income statement of First Majestic Silver. You may change it if you feel that it should be adjusted for some unusual circumstances that are not expected to be repeated in the future or if you already know (from interim financial statements, for example) that this year's revenue is going to be quite different.
Revenue growth rate. Forecasted future revenue growth rate is the most important input parameter for the intrinsic value calculation. Unlike other input parameters that are reasonably expected to be in line with their historic averages or their historic trends, the revenue growth rate by and large is a wild card: nobody really knows what the company's revenue will be in the future. Of course, the level of unpredictability is different for different industries (utility companies being the most predictable and, thus, less risky).
We use three input parameters to forecast the revenue growth rate in our AG stock valuation model: a) initial revenue growth rate of 0% whose default value is the revenue growth rate in the most recent quarter compared to the quarterly revenue a year ago; b) terminal revenue growth rate of 5% whose default value is chosen to be close to the average nominal (i.e. not adjusted for inflation) GDP growth rate; and c) revenue decline factor of 0.9, which stipulates that revenue growth rate in each forecasted year will be equal to the difference of the revenue growth rate in the preceding year and the terminal revenue growth rate multiplied by this revenue decline factor (with the passage of time the revenue growth rate will be approaching the terminal revenue growth rate, but not quite reaching it - though the difference could be infinitesimally small).
At the revenue decline factor of 1, the future revenue growth rate is forecasted to be constant and equal to the initial revenue growth rate. The smaller the revenue decline factor, the faster the revenue growth rate will approach the terminal revenue growth.
Discount rate. The discount rate is used for determining the present value of future cash flows: future cash flows are "discounted" as at normal conditions (that translate into positive expected return on investment) one dollar today is worth more than the same dollar in the future. Unlike all other valuation models, we use variable discount rate, i.e. it increases for each consecutive year. This is done to account for higher risk of cash flows coming in further in the future.
The initial discount rate of 0%, whose default value for AG is calculated based on our internal credit rating of First Majestic Silver, is applied to the cash flow expected to be received a year from now (well, actually, to be precise, in the financial year following the base year - the last year for which we have financial statements). For each consecutive year the discount rate is multiplied by the discount rate multiplier of 1.05, e.i. each year it increases by 5%. Feel free to change this number to correspond to your level of risk assessment of First Majestic Silver.
By the way, it is easy to set the discount rate to be constant (this would make comparison with other valuation models easier): just set the discount rate multiplier equal to 1 and chose the magnitude of the initial discount rate to your liking.
Variable cost ratio is the ratio of variable costs (i.e. costs that fluctuate with fluctuation of the volume of production) to the revenue expressed as a percentage. In the calculation of intrinsic value of AG stock the variable cost ratio is equal to 0%.
Fixed operating expenses is just that - expenses that are not dependant on the volume of production. They are set to $ million in the base year in the intrinsic value calculation for AG stock. These expenses increase with the level of inflation in subsequent years.
Interest rate on debt is the average all-in rate of interest paid by the company on its debt. It is set at 0% for First Majestic Silver.
Corporate tax rate of 27% is the nominal tax rate for First Majestic Silver. In reality, companies find ways to pay much less taxes than that or not to pay them at all.
Cash flow adjustment could be used for any adjustment the investor deems necessary. Most commonly we use this field to account for stock options-related effects in excess of what is reported on the company's income statement. The cash flow adjustment is expressed as a percentage of the revenue, and in the current valuation of the AG stock is equal to 0%.
Production assets are the company's assets used for manufacturing products or provision of services. In the valuation model input table they are expressed as a percentage of revenue and for AG are equal to 0%.
Life of production assets of years is the average useful life of capital assets used in First Majestic Silver operations. It is used to calculate yearly capital expenditures needed to keep these assets in good order - we call it the maintenance CAPEX.
Working capital is the difference between the company's current assets and liabilities. In the model we use the ratio of working capital to revenue, which for AG is equal to 0%. A negative number means that the company is apt at using financial resources of its suppliers and customers; a large positive number, on the other hand, means that it either provides in-kind financing to others or is not good at managing its inventories.
Book value of equity - $ million for First Majestic Silver - is used in calculation of the "floor" for intrinsic valuation based on the discounted cash flow (DCF) method. Even if the prospects are very bad for a company, its assets could always be sold now for their current fair market value.
Shares outstanding of 164.835 million for First Majestic Silver is needed to calculate the intrinsic value of one share.
Market capitalization is used here only for reference purposes and as a quick check that the share price and the number of shares outstanding numbers are correct - something especially to be cognizant about at stock splits. So, the market capitalization of First Majestic Silver at the current share price and the inputted number of shares is $1.1 billion.


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I'm glad I'm not LaTroy Hawkins right now, but the Twins need bats even more than they need a closer. They should have won three of four in Tampa Bay last weekend, and would have done so if they had been able to score more than a pittance of runs.
Let's get to the mailbag.
Steve A. asks: Two outfielders that were once very promising have stumbled in the majors. Can you comment on Ruben Mateo and Milton Bradley? What are their chances of returning to the majors soon (by mid-2002) and making an impact? Finally, what is wrong with Pat Burrell? Where are the 30+ homers from him?
Both Mateo and Bradley are alleged attitude cases. I use "alleged" because it's always hard to separate myth from reality in such situations. Although Bradley has the worse reputation, it seems to me that Mateo's problems may actually be more severe. Bradley's problem is that he can be sour and standoffish, but Mateo's work ethic, once an asset, has apparently deteriorated critically over the last year or so.
Of course, both players are still very young, just 23. There is plenty of time to correct these problems of personality, however grave they may actually be or not be.
Performance-wise, I think Bradley might come around before Mateo does. He's playing very well in Triple-A (.321 batting, .379 OBP, .547 SLG at Buffalo) since coming over to the Indians in a trade just before the deadline. Sometimes a trade and change of scenery shakes loose whatever is bothering the player mentally. Mateo, on the other hand, has been horrible at Triple-A Louisville since coming to the Reds, hitting .211 with no power or patience. He may still not be 100 percent physically, and if the rumors coming out of Texas are true, he isn't 100 percent in the intensity department either.
Ironically, I've always liked Mateo better than Bradley, and he has played better in his major-league exposure before this year. I still expect both players to have good careers, but the huge decline in Mateo's performance makes me think that he may have a longer road back than Bradley.
As for Burrell, he's still just 24. He won't hit 30 homers this year, but he could hit 20. His batting average, OBP, and SLG are all nearly identical to what he did last year. I know Phillies fans are expecting immediate stardom. It hasn't happened yet, but he strikes me as more of the steady growth type. His time will come.
Travis M. writes: With the possibility of the Astros trading Daryle Ward and with Richard Hidalgo's struggles this season, do you see the Houston giving Jason Lane, who is playing at Double-A Round Rock, a shot in the bigs? He is absolutely tearing up Double-A pitching and leads many of the offensive categories in the Texas League. When is the earliest you see him making it to the majors?
Lane is hitting .325 with 33 homers, 110 RBI, and 14 steals. He isn't a tools monster, but he has genuine bat speed, controls the strike zone well, has good instincts, and works his tail off. I like him a lot, and from what I understand the Astros do as well. But they are well-stocked in the outfield right now as you point out, so it may be another year before Lane gets a chance. He could be a September call-up next month.
I think Lane is going to be a good player, not a superstar but a solid regular outfielder. He was a sixth-round pick out of USC in 1999, and should end up being a much better player than dozens and dozens of guys drafted ahead of him.
Greg D. asks: I'm from Chicago and like to keep an eye on all of the minor-league teams in their organization. The White Sox have a lot of great talent down there, but I was wondering if you think Corwin Malone has a legitimate shot at making the major leagues. He has had an amazing season with Class A Kannapolis, and has recently been moved up to a higher Class A level at Winston-Salem.
Malone is a well-kept secret. He gets much less attention than other pitching prospects in the system, but he has a great arm and is making huge strides this year. He has a 1.72 ERA in five starts since being promoted to the Carolina League, with a 38/10 K/BB ratio.
Malone has a rare combination of stuff and command. A 6-3, 200 pound lefty, he throws 91-94 mph and also has a big-breaking slider. He is throwing strikes much more consistently this year, making quick progress for a '99 ninth-round high school pick. I like him a great deal, and regard him as one of the best southpaw prospects in the minor leagues.
So, yes, he has a great chance to make it to the major leagues, provided he doesn't get hurt at some point.
Justin G. writes: Do you think Josh Phelps could be the next big catcher in the majors? He has put up tremendous numbers for the Blue Jays' Double-A team, the Tennessee Smokies, in the Southern League this year.
I've been slow over the last year to give Phelps his due, but he deserves accolades as much as anyone. He is crushing Southern League pitching, hitting .296 with 26 homers thus far. He is drawing walks as well (63), but still tends to strike out a great deal. Phelps has light-tower power, but shaky strike zone judgment resulted in erratic performance in previous campaigns. He's been more consistent this year, likely related to the increase in his walk rate. He may not hit for a terrific average at higher levels, but he should maintain his power production.
There are mixed reports about his defense. He doesn't make many errors, but his throwing is inconsistent and he's spent about half of the season in the DH role. He looks like a 20+ homer guy to me, but whether he becomes a star or not will depend on how his defense holds up as well as his strike zone judgment. He may end up making a Mike Sweeney-like move to first base eventually.
Kate W. asks: What is your assessment on Victor Martinez? He is leading the Carolina League with a .327 batting average, holds the strike zone well, has developing power (mainly to the gaps now) and is doing well defensively. This season, he has thrown out 34 percent of baserunners attempting to steal on him and has improved since the season started by throwing out 15 of his last 31 baserunners. Using your system that you utilize well in your book, what grade would you give him? He looks like a solid "B" to me.
You present a good summary of Martinez's qualifications. To this I'll add that he was voted "Best Defensive Catcher" in the recent Baseball America poll of the Carolina League, and is a 22-year old switch-hitter. His OBP and SLG are solid at .393 and .499, respectively. He doesn't draw a ton of walks, but he doesn't strike out much either.
Given his combination of hitting and defense, he looks like a fine prospect to me, a real sleeper sneaking up on people. I agree with your "Grade B" assessment. I'll want to see a bit more home run power as well as some Double-A performance numbers before going higher than that. Twenty-two is neither too young nor too old for the Carolina League; I'd give him a B+ if he were a year or so younger. But I do like him, and he's one of the better catching prospects in Class A.
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Wed., Jan. 16, 2013
CHICAGO – The U.S. soccer team will play its first home game in the final round of World Cup qualifying against Costa Rica on March 22 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colo.
Seeking their seventh straight World Cup appearance, the Americans open the 10-game round against Honduras on Feb. 6 at San Pedro Sula. The game in Colorado will give the U.S. players several days of training at altitude before they play at Mexico on March 26 in their third qualifier of the final round.
The Americans have played one qualifier previously at the venue, beating Guatemala 2-0 in 2008.
Jamaica and Panama also are in the six-team finals. The top three nations qualify for the 2014 tournament in Brazil and the fourth-place team advances to a playoff, likely against New Zealand.
The U.S. Soccer Federation announced the site Tuesday. The sites for the five other home games have yet to be announced. With Seattle and Portland potential venues for the June 11 and June 18 games.


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Swim Captain has High Hopes for New Team
Lauren Wheeler expresses excitement for a larger swim team in the 2015-2016 school year
October 6, 2015
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In Texas, the mention of swimming usually conjures up images of lazy relaxation in a pool, enjoying the cool water and the clean smell of chlorine, with a cool glass of lemonade waiting by the side. Not so for Lauren Wheeler, Austin College senior and captain of the Women's Swimming and Diving team at AC. Despite summer winding down and autumn starting to show up on campus, she and the rest of the swim team still jump in the pool every morning.
"This is our third week of official practices," Wheeler said. "We've been having swim practice every day with dry land beforehand and then swimming."
The aquatic 'Roos are in the pool to get ready for the 2015-2016 swim season. With their first swim meet of the year coming up at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas on October 16th, they have been practicing hard, especially the new swimmers.
"This year we actually have five new swimmers and a diver on the girls side," Wheeler said of the team this year. "We're bigger than we used to be and that's pretty exciting."
The Hannah Natatorium has been busy with the swimming and diving team as the team gets in shape and preparing for the season. As of last week, the team has begun weight training twice a week.
"It is really great because it helps those of us who've been here to get stronger as well as the newcomers, who have never experienced weight training and all that stuff to get a lot stronger."
As a new swim captain, Wheeler has her work cut out for her with keeping the girls motivated and urging them on. Her goals for the team this year are to encourage each swimmer to break their own personal records as well to break some school records.
"You have the freshmen that look up to you for guidance and most of our team this year is freshmen and sophomores," Wheeler said. "The guys broke a lot of school records in the relays last year and the girls were really close so we want to get some of those this year."
While the members of the swim team have a wide range of different levels of experience, Wheeler is confident that even those who have just started or haven't been swimming for some time can do great as the meets and relays start.
"It doesn't matter if you just started swimming or if you've been swimming like me for 12 years," Wheeler said. "Just trying to make sure everyone is having a good time and working really hard and just having a great year."
Wheeler is no stranger to these swim meets. She won gold at the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference in the 100-yard backstroke and was the first 'Roo in the program to ever win gold. She has been breaking school and personal records since her freshman year and is eager to continue doing so.
"My personal goals are going to nationals and defending my championship," Wheeler said. "Trying to make sure everyone gets to know each other and that we become pretty close because that's what I valued about our team the past few years, it been pretty nice to feel like a family. It's my last college season so it's just kind of bittersweet but it's going to be awesome. I'm really excited how every one is looking right now and we're so early in the season. I think this year is going to be the best year yet."


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I caught up with Hugh Masekela just before his October 16 concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall.
An Interview with Hugh Masekela
Coming to Toronto's Koerner Hall - October 23, 2010
(The tour will also hit Vancouver and Banff along the way)
Trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer extraordinaire, South African musician Hugh Masekela turned 71 this spring and shows no signs of slowing down. He's led a remarkable life that saw him leaving his homeland twice as a result of the former oppressive apartheid regime, music being his key both out of and back into Africa. A family friend gave Hugh a trumpet and hooked him up with his first teacher when he was smitten with the instrument after seeing Kirk Douglas in the film Young Man with a Horn at the age of 14. He began to play in bands, first in school with other musicians he still counts as friends today, and went on to form the Jazz Epistles - the first South African jazz band to record and play to record houses in 1959/60. That period ended after the notorious Sharpeville Massacre of 1960. After that date, the government banned public groups of more than 10 people.
Hugh left for London, where friends John Dankworth and Yehudi Menuhin got him a scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music. Once he was done there, he landed in the U.S., where other friends, including Harry Belafonte and fellow ex-pat Miriam Makeba (with whom he shared a lifelong friendship, sometimes as lovers, and the pair were married from 1964 to 1966,) helped him get established. He studied classical trumpet at the Manhattan School of Music in New York from 1960-64, and then followed up with a burgeoning career and hits like Up, Up and Away. Still, his homeland was always calling, and he relocated to neighbouring Botswana in the 1980's until the South African government again began to crack down on what it saw as dissidents. He ended up back in the U.K. for a time, then the U.S., touring with Paul Simon, among others. In other interviews, he's credited the Graceland project and its two year tour as being key to letting the rest of the world discover the music and culture of Africa. His 1987 song Bring Him Back Home, about Nelson Mandela, became an anti-apartheid anthem. He went back to South Africa for good after the end of apartheid came finally in the 1990's.
"I come from a South African ancestry and childhood, and heritage. It's obviously at the centre stage of my life," he says. "(But) I've lived all over the world because I had to tour," he notes. "I've gotten to the stage of my life where I'm a person of the world."
Although he's in the middle of his North American tour, he's eager to talk about his other projects, and the one obsession that's fueling all his present day efforts. "Heritage restoration is part of my current obsession," he says. He talks about the fact that Africa's image as a "vanquished continent" perpetuates to this day, and the deleterious effects of transplanted culture that Africa continues to struggle with. "Especially religion, which has been foisted on us," he notes. "African heritage (was characterized) as actually heathen, pagan and primitive. I think it's important for Africans to be able to revel in their heritage." He cites the British and their reverence for the public pomp and circumstance of royalty as an example of that. "We can take our inspiration from the Queen of England," he jokes. "I want to see that in my lifetime. People have been standardized due to technology . It has not been good to Africa. African heritage and culture needs reaffirmation from African people. They've been spread all over the world."
He laments that much of African culture has been watered down in its far flung diaspora, because generations of Africans have been conditioned to accept the Euro/North American models of society. "There's a very, very long way to go back." He notes the rich continental African oral traditions, poetry and forgotten history. "Our performance genius," he says, "without a doubt, it's the most diverse in the world - but it's invisible." People, as he notes, are the reservoir of history and culture, and knowledge of self is key. "With knowledge of self, African won't accept to be (only) consumers and cheap labour."
His long musical career has touched on many genres - jazz, classical, contemporary North American adult, various African styles, words that mean little to him. "I grew up in an age when all these labels did not exist," he says. "I still listen with the ears of a child."
When it comes to what to expect on his current tour, he says he's at the top of his game musically. "My biggest concentration lately has been to play in a formidable ensemble of five other musicians who are virtuosos in their own right. I think that musically we play at a high level that is the result of the incubation of all the styles I've been exposed to over my lifetime." And as for a stylistic label? "We call it backyard," he laughs. "It's definitely not house, or garage."
He's more amused than annoyed by the marketing categories of the contemporary music business. "At one point, the term "world music" was coined. I woke up one day and people told me I was playing world music," he notes dryly.
His work in South Africa these days includes work in theatre. "I'm beginning to dabble in theatre - a little acting, but mostly production," he reports. (He was previously involved in playing and composing for theatrical productions early in his career.) He's involved with founding a musical theatre company which had a successful production earlier this year. "We have four guys who sing the hell out of My Yiddish Mama," he laughs. "We're coming back to The Market Theatre in Johannesburg with Songs of Migration," he says. The theatre group is an extension of his driving concern, involving productions that are music, culture and heritage driven. "We're celebrating exponents of our past," he says.
He also mentions an idea he's working on, involving web based cultural exchanges between municipalities in different parts of the world. It all reinforces that obsession with cultural restoration. "At this point in civilization, we can all use it. We have really become standardized over the last five years," he says of modern commercialized culture. "Everyone is sitting in front of a screen," Hugh says. "It's important for children of the future to say I am African - rather than we used to be African, long ago. Heritage restoration, we can create the environment for it. I'm trying to get a foundation for that. Once we get pilot modules, we can spread that virus. I hope it can spread quickly."
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History of Xi'an
Xi'an was among the most important cities of China before 1000 AD. It remains a major regional centre. Xi'an was known as Chang'an in ancient times.
- Zhou Dynasty established its capital in Feng (灃/沣) and Hao (鎬/镐) between the late 11th century BC and 770 BC, both located west of contemporary Xi'an. In 770 BC, the capital was moved to Luoyang due to political unrest.[1]
- The state Qin moved its capital to Xianyang 350 BC just north of today's Xi'an on the north shore of Wei River.[2]
- Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) constructed its capital in Xianyang. It was burned by Xiang Yu at the end of the dynasty.
- 202 BC: Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, established Chang'an province as his capital; his first palace Changle Palace (長樂宮/长乐宫) was built across the river from the ruin of the Qin capital. This is traditionally regarded as the founding date of Chang'an and Xi'an.
- 200 BC: Emperor Liu Bang built Weiyang Palace in Chang'an.
- 194 BC: Construction of the first city wall of Chang'an began, which was not finished until 190. The wall measured 25.7 km in length, 12–16 m in thickness at the base. The area within the wall was ca. 36 km².
- 190 AD - The most powerful tyrant of the time, Dong Zhuo, moved his court from Luoyang to Chang'an in a bid to avoid a coalition of powerful warlords going against him.
- 582: Emperor of Sui Dynasty ordered a new capital to be built southeast of the Han capital, called Daxing (大興, great excitement). It consisted of three sections: the palace, the imperial city, and the civilian section. The total area within the wall was 84 km², The main street Zhuque Avenue measured 155 m in width. It was at the time the largest city in the world. The city was renamed Chang'an (長安, Perpetual Peace or Eternal Peace) by the Tang Dynasty.[3]
- 7th century: Buddhist monk Xuanzang, well known as Tang Sanzang in China, established a sizeable translation centre after returning from India with Sanskrit (the first language spoken in India) scriptures.
- 652: Construction of Great Wild Goose Pagoda began. It measured 64 m in height. This pagoda was constructed for the storage of the translations of Buddhist sutras obtained from India by the monk Xuanzang.
- 707: Construction of Small Wild Goose Pagoda began. It measured 45 m in height. After the earthquake of 1556, its height was reduced to 43.4 m.
- 904: The end of the Tang Dynasty brought destruction to Chang'an. Residents were forced to move to Luoyang, the new capital. Only a small area continued to be occupied after the destruction.
- 1370: The Ming Dynasty built a new wall to protect a much smaller city of 12 km². The wall measured 11.9 km in circumference, 12 m in height, and 15–18 m in thickness at the base.
- 1936: Xi'an was the site of the Xi'an Incident during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Xi'an Incident brought the Communist Party of China and Kuomintang to a truce so the two forces could concentrate on fighting against Japan.
- 1949: May 20, 1949: The People's Liberation Army captured the city of Xi'an from the Kuomintang.[4]
See also[edit]
- ^ "China's six major historical capitals - Xi'an's cultural history". Archived from the original on 22 February 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ Jane Portal (2007) "The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army", Page 32, ISBN 0674026977
- ^ "History of Xi'an" (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 22 February 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ "Public Government Policy" (in Chinese). City of Xi'an. Archived from the original on 22 February 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
Further reading[edit]
- Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Xian". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. pp. 870–873. ISBN 9781884964046.
- Tingwei Zhang (2004). "Industrial restructuring and urban spatial transformation in Xi'an". In Laurence J.C. Ma and Fulong Wu. Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space. Routledge. p. 140+. ISBN 978-1-134-31609-0.
External links[edit]
- "Xi'an/Chang'an". Silk Road Seattle. USA: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington.


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Netsuke of Wind was a Mastery 4 (Craft, Illusion) air spell which allowed a shugenja to create a small object out of the air itself, something that could be held in one or both hands. [1]
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- Asahina Tariki, an apprentice of the later reviled Asahina Yajinden, devised the perfect tanto during dreams, and cast the spell to use the illusion as model. He eeventually never fulfilled the craft of the tanto.
- Tales said about an assassin whose arrows disappeared after they hit the target, as if they were cast by the spell.
- In the 8th century a ronin shugenja used the spell to create an katana which disappeared when its Lion wielder charged against a banditgang. This was a scheme devised by an unscrupulous Crane who had sought vengeance. The shugenja was smitten with remorse and exposed the Crane to the Lion, and the result was another war between them. [2]
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